On Monday 04 November 2002 21:18, Pekka Savola wrote:
> > Harald replied on the netfilter-devel mailing list that this is a
> > feature.
>
> Of course it is a feature -- for _routing_ code.

Right. I kind of overlooked that originally ;) You'd better not use that final 
patch I sent if you want to use the bridge as a router too.

> For bridging, that is entirely different.

Ideally the REJECT target should have an option that tells the code to use the 
destination address of the original packet as the source address of the ICMP 
message.
I'll ask the netfilter guys what they think about that.

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

Probably 0.0.0.0. Ofcourse, this strange situation is bridge-nf's fault.

-- 
cheers,
Bart

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