From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 18 Sep 2002 12:46:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 18 Sep 2002 12:46:54 -0400 Received: from dhcp101-dsl-usw4.w-link.net ([208.161.125.101]:34198 "EHLO grok.yi.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 18 Sep 2002 12:46:21 -0400 Message-ID: <3D88AF06.7060108@candelatech.com> Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 09:51:18 -0700 From: Ben Greear Organization: Candela Technologies User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020722 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joerg Pommnitz CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Networking: send-to-self References: <20020918134907.13218.qmail@web13308.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Joerg Pommnitz wrote: > Hi Ben, > I had the exact same problem in March (see > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=101679264814811&w=2). The > hacky solution I came up with was to use the following NAT rule: > > iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -d 10.1.12.151 -p udp --dport 12345 > -j SNAT --to 1.2.3.4 > > This way the packets claimed to come from a foreign IP address and were > accepted. However, when the packets hit an ingress filter on their way, > this will fail. > > Will you push this to DaveM for inclusion? Dave has the link to the patch, but whether or not he will include it in the kernel proper I do not know. I hope he does, of course. Ben > > Regards > Jörg > > ===== -- Ben Greear President of Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com ScryMUD: http://scry.wanfear.com http://scry.wanfear.com/~greear