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Date:      Tue, 14 May 2002 13:11:00 -0700
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <crist.clark@attbi.com>
To:        rick norman <rick.norman@lmco.com>
Cc:        freebsd-ipfw@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ipfw and aliases
Message-ID:  <20020514131100.A57077@blossom.cjclark.org>
In-Reply-To: <3CE1599C.42071126@lmco.com>; from rick.norman@lmco.com on Tue, May 14, 2002 at 11:38:20AM -0700
References:  <3CDB2CED.DCC3092F@lmco.com> <20020511134633.A2824@blossom.cjclark.org> <3CE1599C.42071126@lmco.com>

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On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 11:38:20AM -0700, rick norman wrote:
> This is true for the inbound path, however for the outbound path the
> info is available.  It should be possible to have a qualifier that recognizes
> 
> the alias's independantly from the interface.

I don't understand. The outbound path will be the next hop. The next
hop is determined by the destination address of the packet and has
nothing to do with local addresses on the machine.

For packets from the local machine, you can use the source address.
-- 
Crist J. Clark                     |     cjclark@alum.mit.edu
                                   |     cjclark@jhu.edu
http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/    |     cjc@freebsd.org

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