From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: mindb0t@mail.ru Subject: snat --persistent Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 00:17:03 +0600 Message-ID: <1393124438.20100427001703@mail.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Return-path: Sender: netfilter-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: netfilter@vger.kernel.org Hello, I'm using SNAT with --persistent, but I just don't understand clearly what you ment in its description: "Gives a client the same source-/destination-address for each connection." 1. What does "client" mean? An IP, process? 2. If I have one server with several IPs. - Will all my connections go through one IP? ip1->facebook ip1->twitter ip1->something-else.com - Or for each connection IP will be chosen randomly? ip3->facebook ip7->twitter ip233->something else