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From: "Jason Opperisano" <Jopperisano@alphanumeric.com>
Subject: RE: REDIRECT to localhost
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 08:37:41 -0400
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> > As I know, REDIRECT target redirects to the same iface, but on =
another port.
>
> Nope.
> REDIRECT target redirects to lo interface, on the port you want.

hmmm...i'm not so sure i agree with that.  my belief is that REDIRECT =
redirects to the IP address of the receiving interface of the netfilter =
machine on the specified port.

i do transparent proxying w/ REDIRECT and squid, and i see all the =
redirected connections on the IP of the internal interface, not on lo or =
127.0.0.1.

i actually just recently learned here that packets arriving on lo that =
don't have a source and dest of 127.0.0.1 get dropped by the linux =
kernel's "martian" code (thanks for pointing that out to me)--so i don't =
see how a redirect of this nature could work.

-j