[ale] port forwarding for iptables.

Atlanta Geek atlantageek at gmail.com
Tue Jun 9 13:52:11 EDT 2009


The log fix was correct.  Thanks Jim,
I now see my PREROUTING log showing up
But the forwarding does not appear to be working.  any suggestions?

On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 1:42 PM, JK<jknapka at kneuro.net> wrote:
> Jim Kinney wrote:
>> all of the -j LOG calls will never trigger because the packet has
>> already left the chain due to the line before it with the -j ACCEPT or
>> -j DNAT. Put the log before the jump call.
>>
>> -j REDIRECT is what you want to use. DNAT is for IP address. REDIRECT
>> is for port forwarding.
>
>
> If I am not mistaken, REDIRECT only allows you to forward to a port on
> the local machine.  If you want to forward on to another machine, you
> need DNAT.  "man iptables" backs me up on this, yay.
>
> -- JK
>
> --
> Still sigless.
> _______________________________________________
> Ale mailing list
> Ale at ale.org
> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
>



-- 
http://www.atlantageek.com



More information about the Ale mailing list