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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: MASQUERADE: Route sent us somewhere else (was Re: Fw: Rusty's
 brain broke!)
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 02:07:06 +0100
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Cc: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>, fenio@o2.pl,
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To: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
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Julian Anastasov wrote:

>- provide oif learned from the input route (as before the discussed
>change). May be in 99% of the setups it selects the right route.
>I think, we should use this, at least for 2.4.
>
>  
>
Why should we do a route lookup at all ? MASQUERADE doesn't need the
dst_entry but only the interface address. Using ifa_list->ifa_local
of the outgoing in_device seems like the simplest solution to me.

Regards,
Patrick