[IPCop-devel] Re: Re: different tables in 1.4.8?

[Dave H. <dh...@se...>]

"IPCop Development" <ipc...@we...> 
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> At 09:51 PM 9/21/2005, Dave Harry wrote:
<snip>

> You can't actually 'fix' it since you are now dealing with routing and 
> packet rewriting... if you could see the original IP address from the 
> target box on orange, it would try to re-send the packet directly to the 
> green device IP.  Unfortunately, the packet has to take the same path or 
> the routing gets all munged up.  It has to pretend to come from the Red 
> IP, which is where the fancy IPCop rewriting kicks in.  Otherwise it would 
> route like a triangle, from Green to IPCopRed to Orange and directly back 
> to Green - and your Green device would see a mystery packet coming from an 
> IP (in Orange) that it didn't ask for, and just ignore it.
>
> HTH,
>
> -Matthew

Yes, perfectly sensible. Thank you.

-- 
Dave Harry