Accoding to NAT-HOWTO, routing in Linux looks like this: _____ _____ / \ / \ Network --> PREROUTING--->[Routing ]----------------->POSTROUTING-----> \_____/ [Decision] \_____/ | ^ | | --------> Local Process ------ Is there no way to make the output of local processes appear as input to PREROUTING again? I.e. something like this: _________________________________________ | | v | _____ _____ / \ / \ Network --> PREROUTING--->[Routing ]----------------->POSTROUTING-----> \_____/ [Decision] \_____/ | ^ | | --------> Local Process ------ -- Lars Brinkhoff http://lars.nocrew.org/ Linux, GCC, PDP-10 Brinkhoff Consulting http://www.brinkhoff.se/ programming - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html