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Subject: Re: reverse NATing
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 13:35:57 -0500
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I think you are talking about what seems to be the connection
tracking, once a packet match a rule in the nat table it will use that
rule until the connection is closed and in both sides.


On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 13:07:33 +0530, Vinay Reddy <vinayvinay@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I would like to know where exactly reverse mapping(packets coming from
> outside to the internal network) is done in the case of SNAT? From the
> netfilter documentation, it seems to be done in the POST_ROUTING hook.
> Is it true?
> Logically I would expect the packet to be reverse mapped in the
> pre-routing state itself. Why would one want to reverse map it in post
> routing? I am sure I am missing something. Could anyone please
> enlighten me?
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Regards,
> Vinay
> 
>