From: Atle Solbakken <atle@goliathdns.no>
To: Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info>
Cc: "netfilter@vger.kernel.org" <netfilter@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: When does NAT processing actually takes place?
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 01:48:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D815A44.9040103@goliathdns.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=8aYepwRCxcCpo+syL4xjX6HkEFtPVbepZDf05@mail.gmail.com>
Den 17. mars 2011 01:20, skrev Pandu Poluan:
> When does the actual NAT process (i.e., swapping addresses) take place
> for DNAT and SNAT/MASQUERADE? And when does the reciprocal NAT (i.e.,
> reverse NAT, that should happen for instance to process a reply to a
> packet that's been SNAT-ed) take place?
Take a look at this diagram. Explains iptables packet flow (simplified).
http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/wiki/images/f/f0/Iptables.gif.pagespeed.ce.WDSY-MDA4o.gif
Atle.
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2011-03-17 0:20 When does NAT processing actually takes place? Pandu Poluan
2011-03-17 0:48 ` Atle Solbakken [this message]
2011-03-17 2:08 ` Pandu Poluan
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2011-03-17 1:59 ` Pandu Poluan
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2011-03-17 6:32 ` Steven Kath
2011-03-17 8:43 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-03-19 10:02 ` Pascal Hambourg
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