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From: Ranjeet Shetye <ranjeet.shetye2@zultys.com>
Subject: Re: SNAT in OUTPUT chain of the nat table question?
Date: 08 Jan 2003 18:11:54 +0100
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On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 01:37, bauer@mit.edu wrote:
> Is there a good reason that I am unable to conceive of at the 
> moment why SNAT is not a valid target in the OUTPUT chain of the
> nat table? 
> 
> Thanks,
> Steve 
> 
> 

The OUTPUT chain is only for outgoing packets from the linux box itself.

The POSTROUTING chain is the one that contains all packets being
routed/forwarded.

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Ranjeet Shetye
Senior Software Engineer
Zultys Technologies
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