From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Abhishek Singh Subject: ROUTE patch Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:29:57 +0530 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from qb-out-0506.google.com ([72.14.204.233]:30588 "EHLO qb-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753307AbZBXI77 (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Feb 2009 03:59:59 -0500 Received: by qb-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id q18so1442634qba.17 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:59:57 -0800 (PST) Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi Everyone A long time ago, iptables used to have a ROUTE extension. This option adds a `ROUTE' target, which enables you to setup unusual routes. For example, the ROUTE lets you route a received packet through an interface or towards a host, even if the regular destination of the packet is the router itself. The ROUTE target is also able to change the incoming interface of a packet. This extension was discontinued sometime in 2007 and there as of now, such a ROUTE target does not exist. I found it rather useful and upgraded its source code to work with the latest kernel and the latest iptables code also. What I would like to know is that if someone would like to add it to the main iptables tree and the patchomatic repository. I am not sure how to go about it. If someone is interested, please let me know. I shall contribute the code and if would be happy to incorporate review comments by other developers. Regards Abhishek