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From: Herbert Poetzl (herbert_at_13thfloor.at)
Date: Sun 05 Oct 2003 - 14:28:13 BST


On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 01:30:54PM +0200, Martin Daur wrote:
> Martin Daur wrote:
> >Hallo,
>
> >by the way masqurading works fine for other physical machines in the
> >local network (and if they are running vps too). there must be a problem
> >with masq of local packets.
>
> the Linux kernel including 2.4.22 does not masquerade lokal created ip
> packets (eg. from an vps).
> in connection with ip4chbind, masquerading of these packetes gets more
> important if you do not want to assign a public ip to every vserver or
> run the vservers on additional physical hardware inside the local lan.

okay, I found that out yesterday as I tested the
setup you want to use, but I'm not sure if local
masquerading (on aliased interfaces) will work as
expected at all ... guess we have to test ...

> A patch from Stefan Metzmacher can be found at:
> http://lists.netfilter.org/pipermail/netfilter-devel/2002-January/006505.html

will adapt that to the recent kernels, anybody
willing to test that with several setups?

best,
Herbert

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