On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Bart De Schuymer wrote:
> On Saturday 02 November 2002 14:00, Pekka Savola wrote:
> > > Does the patch below fix it?
> >
> > Yep, tcp resets seem to come fine without error messages now. Thanks.
> >
> > How about the source address of ICMP rejects, has this always been so
> > and/or is it easily modifiable?
> 
> Harald replied on the netfilter-devel mailing list that this is a feature.

Of course it is a feature -- for _routing_ code.

For bridging, that is entirely different.

Btw. I wonder what is used as a source address if the bridge has no IP.

> As these ICMP packets are seen by the POSTROUTING chain, 

I belive you need to have mangle / nat loaded for that (or so I understood 
anyway..)

> you can just use SNAT 
> there. 

I don't want to mess with _any_ kind of NAT.

> Ofcourse, only if you know what source address to put it to ;) But 
> that will probably be a router.

Right.. quite impossible if you have N hosts behind the bridge: you'd have 
to have N times as much rules that way.

-- 
Pekka Savola                 "Tell me of difficulties surmounted,
Netcore Oy                   not those you stumble over and fall"
Systems. Networks. Security.  -- Robert Jordan: A Crown of Swords

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