From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: George Alexandru Dragoi Subject: Re: No PREROUTING for OUTPUT? Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 23:31:23 +0300 Sender: netfilter-bounces@lists.netfilter.org Message-ID: <3063e504101713315f8fb386@mail.gmail.com> References: <5FCB4E67C52322BD4ABBF882@10.0.0.4> Reply-To: George Alexandru Dragoi Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <5FCB4E67C52322BD4ABBF882@10.0.0.4> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: netfilter-bounces@lists.netfilter.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Netfilter Users The routing decision is done after OUTPUT chains in both nat and mangle tables, and before POSTROUTING of course. Is this what you meant? On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 12:54:11 -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote: > Can anyone confirm that the PREROUTING chain is absent from the OUTPUT > packet path? I wanted to tag my UDP packets with TOS Minimize-Delay so that > they'd go in my high-priority traffic shaping queues, but if PREROUTING > isn't used in the output path, the packets can't be tagged until after > they've been through the shaper. (Isn't the shaper part of "routing > decision" in the diagrams?) > > -- Bla bla