From: Pascal Hambourg <pascal.mail@plouf.fr.eu.org>
To: Noino <mg8c1zu02@sneakemail.com>
Cc: netfilter@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: simple port translation on the localhost / local loopback
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:35:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47ECC9EB.1000308@plouf.fr.eu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080327211643.B37CA78C86@gam.mel.teaser.net>
Hello,
Noino a écrit :
> Searching found that, maybe, a kernel option : CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT_LOCAL
> should be necessary for PAT to work on the local host; can you confirm
> that it would indeed work if I were to recompile my kernel with that
> option set ?
I confirm. On 2.6 kernels < 2.6.11 and 2.4 kernels < 2.4.29 this option
must be enabled in order to do local NAT on loopback.
> Further search seemes to imply that this option was
> removed from later kernels altogether, which gets even more confusing...
In later kernels the local NAT ability is still present but is not
optional any more, so you do not have to bother about it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-28 10:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-27 21:16 simple port translation on the localhost / local loopback Noino
2008-03-27 23:17 ` Ryan Kruse
2008-03-28 10:21 ` Noino
2008-03-28 10:35 ` Pascal Hambourg [this message]
2008-03-28 14:15 ` Noino
2008-03-29 15:27 ` Pascal Hambourg
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