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From: Pascal Hambourg <pascal.mail@plouf.fr.eu.org>
Subject: Re: NAT for locahost to IP LAN for mail services
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 12:23:43 +0100
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Zagato a =E9crit :
> cant't i redirect the packect from 127.0.0.1 to 192.168.0.5 and then
> 192.168.0.3 ?... so 127.0.0.1 and 192.168.0.5 are in the same host an=
d
> 0.3 its  another phisical PC.... this it's possible ?

Not using iptables. However it is possible using a TCP relay/proxy such=
=20
as rinetd, socat, redir, stone, simpleproxy... which opens a listening=20
socket on the local machine and forwards any connection to a remote=20
host. This does not require NAT at all.