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From: nn6eumtr <nn6eumtr@gmail.com>
Subject: How to round-robin UDP packets w/ iptables?
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 03:41:18 -0500
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My goal is to receive a UDP packet from a single port on a public 
interface and redirect it to multiple ports on 127.0.0.1 in a 
round-robin fashion. The messages are simple one-shot receive/reply 
messages, so I don't need a persistent mapping, but I will need to make 
the replies appear to have come from the port on the public interface.
I believe it will be much more efficient to do this translation in 
iptables then to have a user space process act as a proxy.

I haven't been able to find an example of anyone doing anything similar, 
and its not 100% clear if this is supported, or if I would want to use 
the REDIRECT or BALANCE targets or some other method. Could someone get 
me started in the right direction?