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From: "John A. Sullivan III" <john.sullivan@nexusmgmt.com>
To: Jason Opperisano <opie@817west.com>
Cc: Netfilter users list <netfilter@lists.netfilter.org>
Subject: Re: Nat before routing decision
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 10:17:31 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1100531851.2016.10.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1100530284.3405.11.camel@hubcap.ljm.dom>

On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 09:51, Jason Opperisano wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 06:44, thomas.elsaesser@lhsystems.com wrote:
> > Dear all,
> > 
> > I need src nat before the packet go to the routing decision.
> > How can i do it.
> > 
> > Kind Regards
> > 
> > Thomas
> 
> well, SNAT is only valid in POSTROUTING of the NAT table.  if you need
> to apply alternate routing to a packet and translate it's source, you
> can follow the theory of:
> 
> 1) mark packet in PREROUTING of MANGLE
> 2) route based on MARK
> 3) SNAT packet in POSTROUTING of NAT
<snip>
It has been a long time since I worked with it so I don't remember the
details but is the stateless NAT in iproute2 done before routing
decisions? - John
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      reply	other threads:[~2004-11-15 15:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-15 11:44 Nat before routing decision thomas.elsaesser
2004-11-15 14:51 ` Jason Opperisano
2004-11-15 15:17   ` John A. Sullivan III [this message]

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