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From: Antony Stone <Antony@Soft-Solutions.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Is it possible to forward broadcasting with IPtables?
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 12:14:40 +0100
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On Wednesday 07 April 2004 12:07 pm, Younger Wang wrote:

> If the broadcast packets traverse the chains, they should be put to
> INPUT chain. Is there a way to transfer a packet from INPUT chain to
> FORWARD chain?

DNAT in PREROUTING?

In theory this would do what you want, however I'm sure it won't work.

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Antony.

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