From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Kapetanakis Giannis <bilias@edu.physics.uoc.gr>
Cc: "netfilter@vger.kernel.org" <netfilter@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Round robin load balance to local port range
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:16:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AF44BD3.3050103@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AF449DB.1040600@edu.physics.uoc.gr>
Kapetanakis Giannis wrote:
> On 06/11/09 17:55, Patrick McHardy wrote:
>> The manpage is incorrect (patches welcome :), it will use the first
>> port as long as the tuples don't clash. The --random option can be
>> used to randomly select a port from the range.
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>
> --random does the job both for DNAT and REDIRECT
> I guess random is better that nothing :)
>
> Just for clarification: the state of the packet will be remembered right?
> I don't want to send it first to one port and later to another.
Correct.
> ps. I found another bug
> --random in DNAT has to be put at the end of the rule
> otherwise if you put it before --to-destination
> error: "Multiple --to-destination not supported"
Thanks, fixed in git.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-06 16:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-06 15:30 Round robin load balance to local port range Kapetanakis Giannis
2009-11-06 15:55 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-11-06 16:07 ` Kapetanakis Giannis
2009-11-06 16:16 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
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