Re: Source Routing

From: bert hubert (ahu@ds9a.nl)
Date: Sun Mar 26 2000 - 07:51:48 EST


On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 11:15:25PM +0000, Brad Whitehead wrote:

> > Source routing is supported but what it sounds like is that you
> >want to set up a source routing table in the kernel to source route
> >packets even if the app has not set the source route option on the socket.
>
> Yep, I wanted to be able to do this with applications I do not have the
> source to. eg. windows boxes behind a linux masq server.

Netfilter allows passing packets to userspace for inspection, and I suspect,
modification as well. Not really a performance option, but should work for
most purposes.

Documentation is scarce, but the Netfilter 1.0.0 HOWTO mentions the
possibility.

Regards,

bert hubert.

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