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From: "Naga R Narayanaswamy" <nraju@mindspring.com>
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Subject: Re: IP input  Options processing
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 10:35:06 -0500
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The destination IP address gets modified on every hop on the source
routed IP packets unlike non-source routed packets. At the source,
the ip_dst is one of the ip interfaces on the next hop.
Note that on loose source routing, the option source route itself will be
modified.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kshitij Gunjikar" <kshitijgunjikar@yahoo.com>
To: <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 7:58 AM
Subject: IP input Options processing


> Hi All,
>   I have a question in the IP input code. If we are able to find the next
> for a source routed packet why do we change the destination address of the
> packet.


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