From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 04:17:10 +0000
Subject: Re: [LARTC] ip route nat problem
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Michael Harris wrote:

>When i try adding these rules:
>ip route add default via X.X.X.1 dev eth0 table 200
>ip route add nat X.X.X.6 via Z.Z.Z.46
>ip rule add from Z.Z.Z.46 nat X.X.X.6 table 200
>
>the second route causes this error: "RTNETLINK answers: File exists"
>i have also tried changing the command to "append" rather than "add" the 
>route, but this has had no effect.
>
>i have also tried this:
>ip route add default via X.X.X.1 dev eth0 table 200
>ip route append nat X.X.X.6 via Z.Z.Z.46 table 201
>ip rule add to X.X.X.6 table 201
>ip rule add from Z.Z.Z.46 nat X.X.X.6 table 200
>That seems to work at first, however "ip route get 209.167.89.6"
>returns the following error: RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument
>
>Any help would be greatly appreciated
>  
>
IP_ROUTE_NAT is broken on 2.6 and was removed in 2.6.9-rc1, you
should switch to netfilter NAT. Apparently there is also a stateless
NAT target floating around somewhere, although I've never seen it.

Regards
Patrick
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