[SLUG] Iptables question

Daniel Stone daniel at sfarc.net
Sun Dec 2 14:12:40 EST 2001


On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 10:14:11AM +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote:
> In iptables, what is the purpose of the OUTPUT chain in the nat table?
> Does anyone have an example of where you might use it?

Output NAT doesn't work ATM (unless something really radical has
changed), and probably won't, because of the enormous kludges needed in
the IP stack (Netfilter is very particular about touching the IP stack -
it does so very minimally ATM).

:) d

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