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From: "Travis Crook" <travis@visionsbeyond.com>
To: Antony Stone <Antony@Soft-Solutions.co.uk>
Cc: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: Email troubles behind iptables firewall
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 11:10:35 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <006c01c25e6d$230d0fe0$6902a8c0@visionsbeyond.mindtrip> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200209121558.g8CFwXv10419@vulcan.rissington.net

> Is this correct?  Is there any way to pass their real ip
> > address through the firewall to the mail server?
>
> Change the SNAT / MASQUERADE rule in your POSTROUTING chain so that it
only
> applies to the external interface.
>
> eg change:
>
> iptables -A POSTROUTING -t nat -j SNAT --to a.b.c.d
>
> to
>
> iptables -A POSTROUTING -t nat -o eth0 -j SNAT --to a.b.c.d
>
> where eth0 is your external interface.
>
> Antony.


Oh great ones of the iptables mastery!  You have solved my problem!
I thank you ever so much.

Travis Crook
Visions Beyond



  reply	other threads:[~2002-09-17 17:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-12 14:30 Email troubles behind iptables firewall Travis Crook
2002-09-12 15:43 ` Aldo S. Lagana
2002-09-12 15:58 ` Antony Stone
2002-09-17 17:10   ` Travis Crook [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-09-12 15:07 Travis Crook

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