Hi Patrick,

Patrick McHardy schrieb:
> Ingo Oeser wrote:
> > Patrick McHardy schrieb:
> > 
> >>My guess is that you're using MASQUERADE on ppp0, which since 2.6.14
> >>doesn't exclude locally generated packets anymore, so it translates
> >>them to the primary ppp0 address. For replies it works because NAT
> >>is already set up for the incoming packet, without masquerading.
> > 
> > 
> > Your guess is right! Thanks for that hint. Do you have any idea, how to
> > restore the old behavior? 
> > 
> > I have to, because the ISP cannot assign a different local address
> > and have problems with the new behavior, because that IP adress is an MX 
> > entry
> > and the VPN gateway address for several third party vendor tunnels. 
> > So changing that is quite an effort.
> 
> 
> Since these packets already have the proper source address chosen
> by routing, there is no need to NAT them anymore. So the easiest
> fix is to exclude them manually from masquerading based on the
> address.

Just did that (iptables -t nat -I POSTROUTING -s $SRCADDR -o ppp0 -j ACCEPT)
and it works without any problems.

Many thanks for your very fast help! I'm very happy now :-)

Do you know any good place, where this can be documented?


Best regards

Ingo Oeser
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