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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: MASQUERADE + DHCP problem
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 09:34:35 +1000
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On Sun, 2005-09-11 at 17:07 +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> 2) Add a special hack to masquerade to handle DHCP while no
>    local address exists by looking at the port and src/dst
>    address. Incredibly ugly and wrong :)

If IP src is 0.0.0.0, let it through untouched.  Those packets are
presumably not supposed to be masqueraded, so it's the Right Think
AFAICT.

Will that fix DHCP?
Rusty.
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