[ale] Iptables for port forwarding?

[Ken Nagorski]

Hi there,

This is how I do it.

#redirect web traffic to another machine
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 80 -i eth0 -j DNAT --to 
192.168.1.4

It works for me....

Thank you
Ken

On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Howard Fore wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I've been trying to figure out how to use IPtables to
> forward traffic from an old server to a new one while the
> DNS caches catch up. But All I seem to be doing is dropping
> the incoming connections. Here's the line I was trying for
> web traffic. I don't get an error when I issue the command,
> but subsequent web requests go into a black hole.
> 
> iptables -D -t nat -p tcp -d 216.22.214.138 --dport 80 -j
> DNAT --to 208.32.175.148:80
> 
> Ideas? Suggestions?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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> Howard Fore, me at hofo.com
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