From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 15:38:38 +0530 From: Nikhil S To: 9fans <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] ip masquerading In-Reply-To: <10978f9511a2be00107237fc8117c104@terzarima.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <10978f9511a2be00107237fc8117c104@terzarima.net> Topicbox-Message-UUID: e03c21b4-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 When you import gateway's outside ip stack as /net.alt and try to ping /net.alt/ i can understand that the ping packet is sent from gateway's outside ip stack using its outside ipaddress etc. what happens when the ping response comes back. will that packet be forwarded to both gateway and inside machine ? or only to inside machine ? how does this internally work. i mean when you import /net.alt the ippacket with header is forwarded or without header ? i havent seen kernel code. just curious