Re: newbie: forward rule to itself

[Mauricio Tavares <raubvogel@gmail.com>]

On 10/27/2010 04:00 PM, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>
> On Wednesday 2010-10-27 21:47, Mauricio Tavares wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I have the following rules to forward port 6969 coming on eth0 on server1 to
>>>> port 6969 on server2's eth0:
>>>>
>>>> iptables -A PREROUTING -t nat -p tcp --dport 6969 -j DNAT --to
>>>> 192.168.1.server2:6969
>>>> iptables -A INPUT -d 192.168.4.server1 -p tcp -m tcp -m state --state NEW
>>>> --dport 6969 -j ACCEPT
>>>> iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE
>>>
>>> That prerouting only applies to packets coming from devices connected to
>>> the machine.
>>
>> 	How would the prerouting that applies to packets coming from the
>> machine itself look like?
>
> Mean to say it without "that". The entire PREROUTING chain won't be considered
> for nat.
> Usually, you just directly connect to the proper address preferably
> ith a DNS name if available. Alternate and rather redundant
> communication ways are rinetd.
>
	I am rather confused. Do you mean the prerouting chain is not 
considered for nat at all or just not for this specific case I had in mind?

Incidentally, I am not in love with those rules I created at all. All I 
want to do is to have any traffic to 192.168.4.server1:6969 will be sent 
to 192.168.1.server2:6969 no matter where it was originated from (be it 
somewhere in 192.168.1.0, 192.168.4.0, or even from withing server1). So 
far I cannot figure out a good way to accomplish that.