[ale] Iptables for port forwarding?

[Howard Fore]

Hmm. This doesn't seem to work for me. After I issue this
command (with my IP of course), all the HTTP requests never
come back. Is there something else I have to do other than
this one command? I know iptables is activated in the
kernel.

Hwrd

On Tue, 26 Jun 2001 16:07:32 -0400 (EDT)
 Ken Nagorski <kenn at pcintelligent.com> wrote:
> 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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