Re: Redirecting ports on localhost

[David Cannings <lists@edeca.net>]

On Tuesday 30 March 2004 23:03, Tony Earnshaw wrote:
> tir, 30.03.2004 kl. 21.13 skrev David Cannings:
> > I've linked to the English HTML version of the HOWTO, other languages
> > and formats are available at:
> >
> > http://netfilter.org/documentation/index.html#documentation-howto
> >
> > Have a read, see if you can make some sense of it.  If not, post back
> > with what you've tried and why it doesn't work.  For the record, I've
> > never tried redirecting a port to localhost although I can see no
> > reason why it would not work as any other does.  I will have to give
> > it a go myself when I have a few minutes spare.
> Hi David,
> Dunno if you're the one responsible for the general Netfilter HOWTO.
> But if so, could you please change "iplimit" to "connlimit"? I've used
> vi to great effect after txt2html for my own copy, but I frigged around
> with iplimit for a while with the non-existent iplimit first. I was
> *not* pleased.

Definitely not, the only way I contribute to netfilter is helping out on 
the users mailing list.  I am unsure whether the source to the HOWTO 
documents is available, perhaps you could submit diff's for what you 
believe needs changing.

David