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From: "John A. Sullivan III" <john.sullivan@nexusmgmt.com>
Subject: Re: forwarding
Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 10:51:17 -0400
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On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 10:49, alucard@kanux.com wrote:
> > [JAS - isn't the packet coming in on 10.73.219.156? In other words, your
> > NAT rule should be:
> > iptables -t nat -A PREREOUTING -d 10.73.219.156 -p 6 --dport 8080 -j
> > DNAT --to-destination 192.168.0.2:80]
> 
> -p 6? I've never seen this before, what is that rule trying to do?
> 
<snip>
Ah, I usually use the protocol numbers directly rather than the names of
the protocols as it saves the lookup to the /etc/protocols file.  6 is
the IP protocol number for TCP.  It is the same as saying -p tcp but a
little faster. The main point was the destination address appears to be
wrong - John
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