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From: "Taylor, Grant" <gtaylor@riverviewtech.net>
To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: NAT/MASQ  on eth0 - doubt
Date: Sun, 01 May 2005 16:48:07 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <42754E97.7020506@riverviewtech.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <900a46901009.901009900a46@vsnl.net>

>      My server is on Mandriva 10.1
> eth0 is WAN with static IP connected to 512K DSL
> eth1 is LAN - 192.168.0.0/24 and 192.168.21.0/24

....

> # Generated by iptables-save v1.2.9 on Tue Apr 26 14:50:01 2005
> *nat
> :OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
> :PREROUTING ACCEPT [0:0]
> :POSTROUTING ACCEPT [0:0]
> -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE
> 
> 
> So should I just masq all out ?
> 
> Is it possible to use my static IP or 
> subnets details to rewrite the above 
> masq rule while I am doing a NAT on eth0 ?

Normally, per "man iptables" documentation, you MASQUERADE traffic that is on some sort of dynamic IP connection and SNAT traffic that is on a static IP connection.  The main difference is that MASQUERADE will clear the state of MASQUERADing / SNATing when the interface goes down where as SNAT will not do so.  The idea behind this is that you will likely get a different IP when you reconnect with a dynamic connection and thus the state information is stale and invalid.  Seeing as how you have a static IP on your INet connection I would change the MASQUERADE target to be SNAT.



Grant. . . .


      reply	other threads:[~2005-05-01 21:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-01  6:14 NAT/MASQ on eth0 - doubt varun_saa
2005-05-01 21:48 ` Taylor, Grant [this message]

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