[Techtalk] iptables NAT forwarding...

Walt pippin at freeshell.org
Wed Jun 5 10:17:39 EST 2002


caitlynmaire at earthlink.net wrote:

>On Wed, 5 Jun 2002 09:46:38 -0400
>"Davis, Jennifer" <JDavis at JUSTICE.GC.CA> wrote:
>
> > This topic seems very interesting.  I never knew we could forward
> > requests into a computer on the inside of the network.  I was
> > wondering how this would be done on an IPchains setup.
>
>Hi, Jennifer, and everyone else,
>
>You can't do it with ipchains.  That's why iptables was developed, to
>allow for a true network address translation (NAT) table which wasn't
>available with the older ipchains package.

ipmasqadm supposedly can do it on older kernels/
ipchains systems, according to:

http://www.ox.compsoc.net/~steve/portfw-2.2.html

I was unable to use it, so I can't say from experience...


Walt

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