From: Athan <netfilter@miggy.org>
To: bauer@mit.edu
Cc: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: SNAT in OUTPUT chain of the nat table question?
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 01:29:52 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030109012952.GI21359@miggy.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030109003721.GA26207@mit.edu>
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On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 07:37:21PM -0500, 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?
From 'man iptables':
SNAT
This target is only valid in the nat table, in the
POSTROUTING chain. It specifies that the source address
SNAT gets done just as packets go out, hence only in the POSTROUTING
chain as you only know where they're going by then.
-Ath
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-09 0:37 SNAT in OUTPUT chain of the nat table question? bauer
2003-01-08 17:11 ` Ranjeet Shetye
2003-01-09 1:29 ` Athan [this message]
2003-01-09 2:36 ` Joel Newkirk
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