Re: Passed chains from local process to local ip

["John A. Sullivan III" <john.sullivan@nexusmgmt.com>]

On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 02:27, andilist@gmx.de wrote:
> Hello,
> which chains are passed from packets, generated from a local process with a
> local ip as destination(not 127.0.0.1, but ip-address of a local network
> interface).
> 
> Is it OUTPUT -> POSTROUTING -> PREROUTING -> INPUT, or is it directly?
> 
> my network interface has 5 ip-adresses. If have 2 daemons (say A and B)
> running on 2 different local ip-Addresses (ip-A and IP-B) on the same port.
> It's not possible to run a deamon on 2 or more addresses. so i need to
> forward ip-c, ip-d and ip-e to ip-a.
> 
> ip-a -> A
> ip-b -> B
> ip-c -> ip->a -> A
> ip-d -> ip->a -> A
> ip-e -> ip->a -> A
> 
> it works allready from packets from remote hosts (with dnat and prerouting),
> but not from local packets. to use dnat for local packets in the output
> chain i read that i must update the kernel and install a new version of
> iptables. but i am not sure, if this will work, because the packets are for
> a local ip-address and not for a remote destination.
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> Andreas
I am not absolutely certain but one could find out by adding log rules
at the entrance to each chain and seeing which are traversed by your
packets - John
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