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From: Aleksandar Milivojevic <amilivojevic@pbl.ca>
Subject: Re: Understanding how nat works
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 09:47:56 -0500
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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.

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