Re: [LARTC] Routing/forwarding/shaping problems in v2.2.x (Long -

[Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>]

	Hello,

On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Gordan Bobic wrote:

> > The only problem is that I still didn't upgraded the patches to
> > 2.2.25, may be in the next days I'll find time to do so.
>
> It all patched cleanly anyway, don't worry about it. I patched 2.2.24 and then
> patched that to 2.2.25. I haven't compiled it yet because I am not in front

	OK, I see that skb_padto is used only from the net drivers,
so it is not fatal that skb_copy_grow will not copy skb->tc_index,
so I hope DS9 will work

> Excellent. Note that I also use policy routing so that the sessions started to
> ethX will always be reponded to on ethX. I think that is fairly standard
> (things break horribly otherwise). However, what happens when a host randomly
> alternates between IP addresses it is starting sessions to/from? This sort of
> worked before, but it quickly started to break. I take it that with the
> routes patch things will not fall apart like before?

	Yes, the patch keeps each NAT connection bound to the
masquerade address and correctly uses the routing, usually for
multipath routes. Of course, in 2.2 a route cache flush leads to
much more problems (CPU cycles for rerouting) compared to 2.4.

Regards

--
Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>

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