Re: [MASQUERADE] Not changing to new source ip address when dynamically assigned in ppp link

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On Monday 2011-07-18 13:54, Autocad Learner wrote:

>Hi Jan,
>
>Thanks for your quick reply.
>
>Unfortunately we cannot upgrade our kernels. 
>
>I would like to know if there is any clean work around to deal with this
>issue.

You could clear the CT table on ppp-down... but that, too, is only
available in newer kernel versions.

[In other words, running old systems just works to your _complete_
disadvantage.]

>We do not want to do an iptables restart or server restart to take this
>effect.  Also i saw in one of the posts i can set the ip_conntrack_udp_timeout
>and ip_conntrack_udp_timeout_stream to 0 and revert back after 10 seconds.
>Since i am a newbie, i am not sure whether this would affect any other
>application. Is it the best way to deal with this issue?
>
>To understand this problem:-
>
>The ip_dynaddr says it would update the ip address when the packet is
>retransmitted before we get any incoming packets from the destination.

I only glanced over it, but it seems ip_dynaddr is merely to cater for
address changes in the TCP SYN retry cycle during dial-on-demand.
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