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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Maximilian Engelhardt <maxi@daemonizer.de>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Logic for SNAT persistent handling introduced in 2.6.30 is inverted
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:28:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A92CDC5.2060707@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200908241516.16544.maxi@daemonizer.de>

Maximilian Engelhardt wrote:
> Kernel 2.6.30 introduced a patch [1] for the persistent option in the 
> netfilter SNAT target. This is exactly what we need here so I had a quick look 
> at the code and noticed that the patch is wrong. The logic is simply inverted.
> The patch below fixes this.

Good catch, applied. I'm wondering what the people who requested and
tested this change did actually test :)

> Also note that because of this the default behavior of the SNAT target has 
> changed since kernel 2.6.30 as it now ignores the destination IP in choosing 
> the source IP for nating (which should only be the case if the persistent 
> option is set).

It fortunately only affects NAT to a range of IPs, which isn't
used that much.

      reply	other threads:[~2009-08-24 17:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-24 13:16 Logic for SNAT persistent handling introduced in 2.6.30 is inverted Maximilian Engelhardt
2009-08-24 17:28 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]

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