From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pascal Hambourg Subject: Re: Trouble shooting for port forwarding , Want to make sure port is forwarded Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 12:23:36 +0200 Message-ID: <44CF2BA8.50106@plouf.fr.eu.org> References: <20060801094234.35522.qmail@web55506.mail.re4.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20060801094234.35522.qmail@web55506.mail.re4.yahoo.com> 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="iso-8859-1"; format="flowed" To: Netfilter IPtableMailinglist Hello, John Joseph a =E9crit : > Hi=20 > For the purpose of trouble shooting , one setup > which I had done for redirecting port 110 to port > 8110 ( same machine) . For this purpose I gave the > command as=20 >=20 > iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 110 -j > REDIRECT --to-port 8110 >=20 > Now after this . When I do a tcpdump for port 8110 > , I do not get any results , when I access port 110=20 This is normal. Tcpdump sees the incoming original packets when they=20 arrive at the interface, before they are DNATed or REDIRECTed by=20 iptables in the PREROUTING chain.