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" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message