Packet forwarding using netfilter

Packet forwarding using netfilter

[Sarbeswar Mohapatra]

Hi,
Can anybody help me, how to forward the incoming packets to another machine
using PRE_ROUTING hook (case-1 through the same interface the packet came
in, case-2 through a different interface).
In case of case-2, I tried turning on the ip forwarding option in (echo 1 >
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward), but no luck. Basically the packet probably
gets discarded in ip_receive_finish function, but not sure.

Here is the sample code, where after receiveing the packet in the hook, the
ip address is changed (skb->nh.ip->saddr = xxx, skb->nh.ip->daddr = yyyy)
and the route is updated,
     struct flowi fl;

     fl.nl_u.ip4_u.daddr = xxx;
     fl.nl_u.ip4_u.saddr = yyy;
     fl.nl_u.ip4_u.tos = 5;

    (*skb)->nfcache |= NFC_IP_SRC;
    (*skb)->nfcache |= NFC_IP_DST;
    (*skb)->nfcache |= NFC_ALTERED;

    if (ip_route_output_key(&rt, &fl) < 0)
    {
        printk("No output route ...\n");
        return -1;
    }
    else
    {
        if ((*skb)->dst)
            dst_release((*skb)->dst);
        (*skb)->dst = dst_clone(&rt->u.dst);
        (*skb)->dev = rt->u.dst.dev;
        ip_rt_put(rt);
    }

Regards,
Sarbeswar