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From: Grant Taylor <gtaylor@riverviewtech.net>
To: Mail List - Netfilter <netfilter@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: "DNAT" w/o changing source address?
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 18:35:04 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47042728.1060508@riverviewtech.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1191424890.25752.27.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On 10/3/2007 10:21 AM, John Madden wrote:
> I've got the typical DNAT configuration working fine, but I'm 
> wondering if there's a way to "port forward" without changing the 
> source address of the packets so that the destination sees the actual 
> client's IP?

Um, correct me if I'm wrong, but Destination NATing should not alter the 
source IP address of the packet that is being NATed.

Honestly, I wonder how you are doing your DNATing and if you are not 
also possibly unknowingly SNATing as well.



Grant. . . .

  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-03 23:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-03 15:21 "DNAT" w/o changing source address? John Madden
2007-10-03 23:35 ` Grant Taylor [this message]
2007-10-03 23:50   ` Pascal Hambourg
2007-10-04  1:17     ` Grant Taylor
2007-10-04 13:14     ` John Madden
2007-10-04 13:14   ` John Madden
2007-10-04 14:09     ` Grant Taylor
2007-10-04 14:19       ` John Madden
2007-10-04 15:13         ` Grant Taylor
2007-10-04 14:17     ` Pascal Hambourg
2007-10-04 14:22       ` John Madden
2007-10-04 14:59         ` Pascal Hambourg
2007-10-04 15:13           ` John Madden
2007-10-04 15:29             ` Grant Taylor
2007-10-04 19:33               ` Grant Taylor
2007-10-04 16:01             ` Pascal Hambourg
2007-10-04 15:23           ` Grant Taylor
2007-10-04 15:52             ` Pascal Hambourg
2007-10-04 19:12               ` Grant Taylor
2007-10-04 19:25                 ` John Madden

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