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Re: iptables question



On 22 Jun 2002 16:43:17 +0800
Crispin Wellington <crispin@aeonline.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 2002-06-21 at 16:15, Jan Räther wrote:
> > Hi there,
> > 
> > i have just a simple question about iptables. I got a router running
> > debian with iptables. The Standard Policy's for all chains are DROP.
> > Now i want to masq/route a few specific ports to some boxes inside my
> > LAN, all with 192.168.1.x addresses. I do that with:
> > 
> > iptables -A PREROUTING -t nat -i ppp0 -s 0/0 -p tcp --dport 2222 -j
> > DNAT--to 192.168.1.2
> > 
> > My question is now, will that rule be processed before the standard
> > INPUT policy gets applied? Or do i have to add a:
> 
> PREROUTING comes before INPUT.
> 
> INPUT is only processed for packets destined for the local machine (this
> is different to 2.2 ipchains) which these DNAT packages aren't anyway. 
> 
> it goes
> 
> 
> PREROUTING ---+----> FORWARD ------+-----> POSTROUTING
>               |                    ^
>               V                    |
>             INPUT                OUTPUT
>               |                    ^
>               +-> local processes -+
> 
> Hope that makes it clear

yep, thanks...

Jan

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