From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: MASQUERADE: Route sent us somewhere else (was Re: Fw: Rusty's
 brain broke!)
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 03:15:50 +0100
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Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> I.e. why not use something like the following to find the source address 
> in MASQUERADE:
> 
>     ((struct rtable*)skb->dst)->rt_src

AFAICS in case of a input routed packet rt_src is the source ip of the
packet.

Best regards,
Patrick


> 
> Only worry is if there is POSTROUTING cases where skb->dst is not an
> rtable (superset of dst_entry).
> 
> Regards
> Henrik
>