Re: iptables and tcpdump

From: David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Date: Tue Oct 30 2001 - 00:31:57 EST


   From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
   Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 15:28:12 +1100
   
   should the NAT layer be doing skb_unshare() before altering the packet?

I think it should.

Look, if you are messing with packets before they go back out, and
tcpdump could have sniffed it on the way in, you can't change it's
contents blindly.

Franks a lot,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
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