Gregory Nowak staggered into view and mumbled: > >Hi all. > >I looked at the iptables man page, but found it somewhat confusing, so >I am asking the following here in hopes of getting an answer. > >Is there a way to have iptables take an outbound connection on for >example tcp port 1, and redirect it so that it's made on tcp port 2 >instead? > >If this is possible, then could someone please tell me what the >iptables commandline for this would look like? >Thanks in advance. I found the iptables man page difficult at first, but the more I work with it the more it makes sense. I discovered by trial and error that the command line parameters described nearer the top of the man page generally must appear on the command line before those described further towards the bottom of the man page--much more so than for any other man page I recall reading. Furthermore, iptables command lines can look pretty cryptic, especially to those of us who have not worked with iptables much. However, iptables is a powerful tool which seems to be well worth learning. The particular application you want to perform seems to be the kind of firewall operation iptables should handle well. You might want to go to the securityfocus.com web site, join the firewalls email list listed there, and ask your question in that email list. I hope this info proves helpful. Have a _great_ day! -- Ralph. N6BNO. Wisdom comes from central processing, not from I/O. rreid at sunset.net http://personalweb.sunset.net/~rreid Opinions herein are either mine or they are flame bait. TAN (x) = SIN (x) / COS (x)
