Re: POSTROUTING

[Arnt Karlsen <arnt@c2i.net>]

On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:25:34 +0000, 
Antony Stone <Antony@Soft-Solutions.co.uk> wrote in message 
<200402181825.35022.Antony@Soft-Solutions.co.uk>:

> 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 

..I suspect he means he wants " -s $LOCAL_NET " or somesuch, such
variables needs first be defined like ' LOCAL_NET="10.0.0.0/27" ', 
for larger sites, it's possible to script these definitions, check the 
http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/ over at http://tldp.org/guides.html for
ideas.

> (MARKing packets comes to mind, for example).

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