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From: Andrew Beverley <andy@andybev.com>
Subject: Re: Redirecting ports with netfilter: unexpected varying results
 possibly correlated with NAT
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2011 23:22:36 +0100
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To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Cc: Ronald <ronald645@gmail.com>, netfilter@vger.kernel.org

On Sat, 2011-10-29 at 21:29 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Saturday 2011-10-29 20:23, Andrew Beverley wrote:
> >>  I can even add the following
> >> line to my server. (This is in the case I use port redirection. Then I
> >> use this line to make it an effective security enhancement):
> >> 
> >> iptables -I PREROUTING -t raw -p udp --dport 500 -j DROP
> >
> >Yes, but the packets originating from the server will not pass through
> >the PREROUTING chain.
> >
> >> Besides, I designed my netfilter configuration to not differentiate
> >> between interfaces. I use the addrtype extension, works better.
> >
> >I like that, but remember that any packets leaving the server will only
> >traverse the OUTPUT and POSTROUTING chains.
> 
> This is wrong information.
> 
> Packets very well pass through PREROUTING even when they come from lo.

Sorry, I meant locally generated packets leaving the server, in which
case I assume that they do not go through POSTROUTING?