From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jason Opperisano Subject: Re: nat:REDIRECT on localhost not working in Kernel 2.6 Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 12:41:00 -0500 Message-ID: <20041119174100.GA20905@bender.817west.com> References: <200411191836.07261.su@su2.info> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200411191836.07261.su@su2.info> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: netfilter-bounces@lists.netfilter.org Errors-To: netfilter-bounces@lists.netfilter.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 06:36:02PM +0100, Stephan Uhlmann wrote: > Hello netfilter friends, > > I want to redirect all connections going to port 80 of a host to port 8080 of > the same host. Of course I do it with the REDIRECT target: > > iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-ports 8080 > iptables -t nat -A OUTPUT -p tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-ports 8080 > > The redirection of externally incoming connections via PREROUTING works > perfectly fine. > > But I have the problem that locally generated connections are not redirected > on machines with Linux Kernel 2.6 but on machines with Linux Kernel 2.4. > > I tested: > SuSE Linux 9.0 (Kernel 2.4.21, iptables v1.2.8) - works > SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernel 2.6.5, iptables v1.2.9) - does not work > SuSE Linux 9.2 (Kernel 2.6.8, iptables v1.2.11) - does not work > Gentoo Linux (Kernel 2.6.9, iptables v1.2.11) - does not work > > "iptables -t nat -L -v" shows that no packet at all was catched by the OUTPUT > chain. Instead it seems to go to the POSTROUTING chain. But the REDIRECT > target can't be used in the POSTROUTING chain. > > Is this a bug? Is this a feature? Did something change between Kernel 2.4 and > 2.6 in this regard? > > I looked through the ChangeLogs and other docs but didn't find any hint. are all kernels in question compiled with: IP_NF_NAT_LOCAL -j -- "Man, you go through life, you try to be nice to people, you struggle to resist the urge to punch 'em in the face, and for what?" --The Simpsons