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From: Aleksandar Milivojevic <amilivojevic@pbl.ca>
To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: Understanding how nat works
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 09:47:56 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41503F1C.6060406@pbl.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040921140258.75515.qmail@web51307.mail.yahoo.com>

Dominic Iadicicco wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I am new at iptables and am tring to learn for furture
> projects. For an expirement I tried this.
> 
> "iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s 172.16.12.131 -o
> eth0 -j SNAT --to 172.16.12.167"
> 
> This is all on a 172.16.12.x subnet.
> 
> from the same machine I then tried to ping
> 172.16.12.200 and I got nowhere.  When I deleted the
> rule it worked fine.  

What machine has 172.16.12.167?  Usually you should SNAT only to address 
that is assigned to the machine/interface where you SNATing.

-- 
Aleksandar Milivojevic <amilivojevic@pbl.ca>    Pollard Banknote Limited
Systems Administrator                           1499 Buffalo Place
Tel: (204) 474-2323 ext 276                     Winnipeg, MB  R3T 1L7


  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-09-21 14:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-21 14:02 Understanding how nat works Dominic Iadicicco
2004-09-21 14:15 ` Eric Leblond
2004-09-21 14:30   ` Dominic Iadicicco
2004-09-21 14:47 ` Aleksandar Milivojevic [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-09-21 16:46 Daniel Chemko

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