From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: ip_route_me_harder question
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 06:18:03 +0100
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Giant Sand Fan's wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a netfilter module that needs to reroute a packet after
> unpacking it (minimal encap) in NF_IP_PRE_ROUTING, because the dst
> changes. But even when a ip_route_me_harder with RTN_LOCAL works
> (ret==0) the packet disappears.
> 
> The question is , do i need to use ip_route_me_harder? because when
> the dst of encapsulated packet is the local machine it works.

You don't need rerouting in *PRE*ROUTING, regular routing will
take care of this.