SO_ORIGINAL_DST does not work in nat/OUTPUT anymore

Harald Welte laforge at netfilter.org
Sun Jul 10 17:32:34 CEST 2005


On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 04:18:16PM +0200, Jens Hoelldampf wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> the upstream patch from
> 
> https://bugzilla.netfilter.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=91
> 
> destroys the functionality of SO_ORIGINAL_DST for local generated
> packets. It returns the local address the connection is redirected to
> instead of the original destination address. As a result you cannot use
> local transparent proxies anymore.

ouch.  It seems like we really need to revert that change and find a
different solution for conntrack unloading :(

Thanks for reporting this.

Patrick, are you already working on this?

> Should I open a new bug or reopen the old one?

please open a new one, since it's a different problem.

-- 
- Harald Welte <laforge at netfilter.org>                 http://netfilter.org/
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