[ale] port forwarding help

[Chris Ricker]

On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Michael D. Hirsch wrote:

> On Friday 04 April 2003 06:12 am, Joe wrote:
> > You might have already checked on this, but here is a suggestion.  Are
> > you accepting those packets in your INPUT chain?
> 
> Well, first, I reset all firewalling for testing purposes, so everything 
> gets accepted.  But second, do I really need to?  If I'm forwarding the 
> packet in the PREROUTING table, do I ever have to accept it?  I thought 
> you only accept packets that you will deal with locally.

Right. You don't need to. You do have to accept it in the FORWARD chain, but 
not in the INPUT chain.

later,
chris
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