George Vieira was once rumoured to have said:
> IPROUTE can change the source address and supports route depending
> on source but I have problems when using the default route. I've
> been following the instructions from the Sys Admin magazine about a
> year or so old now and explained alot about it but their examples
> were a 3-4 way network and neither routed to the internet with a
> different source. BUT, they did route to other internal network
> with a different source address so it appears it's capable of it.
Yes, because iproute is for policy routing, its not a fixall for
source NAT.
> I've even done it for our router which the linux box and router are both on
> a 192.168.10.1 and .2 address and the linux box responds as 203.x.x.x which
> worked when I tracerouted it from home because it appeared in the traceroute
> as 192.168.10.1 which I didn't like..
Yet again, use iptables NAT.
Netfilter's NAT system was rewritten from the grounds up and is vastly
superior to the older IP Masq system.
C.
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