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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Amin Azez <azez@ufomechanic.net>
Cc: netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: return flow NAT table on POSTROUTING
Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 20:44:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4468CBF0.2080101@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e4a4gh$7jk$1@sea.gmane.org>

Amin Azez wrote:
> I've observed on kernel 2.6.11.7 that return flows for SNAT'd
> connections do not pass through the NAT chain in the POSTROUTING table.
> 
> They do however pass through the MANGLE chain in the POSTROUTING table.
> 
> Is this to be expected?
> 
> (Of course the original flow did pass through the NAT chain which is how
> the SNAT occurred).

Return traffic never goes through the NAT table, its too late to change
the mappings once the connection has been established.

      reply	other threads:[~2006-05-15 18:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-15 14:50 return flow NAT table on POSTROUTING Amin Azez
2006-05-15 18:44 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]

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