MASQUERADE + DHCP problem

[David S. Miller]

From: Patrick McHardy <kaber at trash.net>
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 01:57:22 +0200

> Rusty Russell wrote:
> > If IP src is 0.0.0.0, let it through untouched.  Those packets are
> > presumably not supposed to be masqueraded, so it's the Right Think
> > AFAICT.
> > 
> > Will that fix DHCP?
> 
> Absolutely. Since these packets never get routed, the only possibility
> when they can occur is when a local raw socket with IP_HDRINCL chooses
> a source address of 0. In that case it definitely seems right to leave
> the packet alone.

That's a really great idea Rusty.

Patrick, I think this needs to go into -stable as well,
once you have a patch ready, right?