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From: Phil Oester <kernel@linuxace.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MASQUERADE handling of device events
Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 08:34:57 -0800
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On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 05:24:52PM +0100, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> >ifindex just cannot be used reliably.
> >
> Of course, I wasn't thinking :) Then what about Henrik's suggestion,
> replacing masq_index by a new status bit ?

It's a great idea, and will reduce the size of struct ip_conntrack.
But I think it should be done in a separate cleanup patch - really would
like to get this one merged up to fix the masq issues.

Phil