[ale] SNAT issues

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Wed Oct 28 11:08:37 EDT 2009


docs are correct. They are for DNAT not SNAT.

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Chris Fowler
<cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:
> Possibly then this documentation is old/wrong?
>
> http://linux-ip.net/html/nat-dnat.html
>
> On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 10:45 -0400, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
>> On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 10:01 -0400, Chris Fowler wrote:
>> > Am I doing something wrong?
>>
>> > [root at demo-ens]# /sbin/iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -d 192.168.2.254
>> > -j SNAT --to-destination 10.0.2.254
>> > iptables v1.2.5: Unknown arg `--to-destination'
>> > Try `iptables -h' or 'iptables --help' for more information.
>>
>> --to-destination is not valid for SNAT, only for DNAT.
>>
>> --to-source is what you would use with SNAT.
>>
>> > This is in kernel 2.4.24.
>>
>> > Chris
>>
>> Regards,
>> Mike
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