Greeting all
Has anyone found a fix yet for the routing bug in 2.2 kernels that I
highlighted about 5 months ago?
At the time there was a lot of prattle about netmasks (total waste of space)
and such where a simple point-to-point route could not be established, never
mind a subnet.
Summary
A packet comes into an interface and is routed back out of the same interface
in order to complete its journey. IT DOES NOT WORK. The code assumes that the
destination is on the same network segment (I think) so it refuses to send it
out the same interface.
In case doubters didn't get that IT DOES NOT WORK.
Yes - forward in /proc is enabled (I may be stupid sometimes but not that
stupid) and in any case it forwards on the other 4 interfaces.
Yes - I've checked that reverse path filtering (/proc....rp_filter) is turned
on, turned off, disabled with CONFIG_IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER, enabled with it, been
set to all values documented.
So...
Any ideas at all or does everyone else like me just not have the time to find
the solution by rewriting the code!!
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