A little iptables help

[rodrigob at suespammers.org (Rodrigo Barbosa)]

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On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 11:46:50AM -0500, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
> Quoting Kirk Bocek <t004@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> 
> >I did this successfully providing external SSH access to a collection 
> >of hosts on a private network. However for this to work, the hosts on 
> >the private net also need to be doing SNAT back out through the 
> >firewall.
> 
> Unless you are doing something funky, SNAT is not needed.  All he needs 
> is DNAT.
> Netfilter should take care of returning packets automagically (unless, as I
> said, you are doing something funky and confusing Netfilter with it).

If you have a RELATED,ESTABLISHED matching rule only.

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