On Tuesday 08 October 2002 20:57, Aaron Clausen wrote:
> As I try to solve my problems with iptables, nat and traffic shaping (with
> ip accounting thrown intot he mix) a friend of mine just sent this claim.
> Is it true? Will I have to step back to ipchains, or is there a way to
> force packets through the traffic shaping filters using iptables?
>
> > If you are using iptables, you MUST forget it, or change to
> > ipchains, because
> > masq is done by nat table, and shaping is done by mangle table. I
> > cannot found
> > any way to drive the packet 1. thru nat, than mangle, instead of
> > using OUTPUT
> > and FORWARD.
Shaping is not done by mangle table, shaping is done when the packet leaves
the box. But marking is done in the mangle table. I don't understand what's
the problem. You can mark the packets in mangle and masq in nat ???
You can find more info on www.docum.org under KPTD.
Stef
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