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From: Antony Stone <Antony@Soft-Solutions.co.uk>
Subject: Re: POSTROUTING
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:25:34 +0000
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On Wednesday 18 February 2004 6:26 pm, capsx wrote:

> !
>
> I want as source to specify a chain
> not -s 10.0.0.0/27 but something like -s LOCAL_NET_CHAIN

You can't do that.   -s takes an address or network range.   -i takes an 
interface name.   You cannot specify anything else as the 'source' of a 
packet.

Tell us why you want to do this and we might be able to suggest an alternative 
(MARKing packets comes to mind, for example).

Regards,

Antony.

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