commit 8a260b2683132291c7e690e1c352ee38307903be Author: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun Sep 7 15:32:29 2008 -0400 doc: remove mentions of NAT in ip6tables manpage ip6tables does not support NAT at this time. Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxx> --- ip6tables.8.in | 21 +++------------------ 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-) diff --git a/ip6tables.8.in b/ip6tables.8.in index 7142b4a..669a961 100644 --- a/ip6tables.8.in +++ b/ip6tables.8.in @@ -156,10 +156,8 @@ fail. Rules are numbered starting at 1. \fB-L\fP, \fB--list\fP [\fIchain\fP] List all rules in the selected chain. If no chain is selected, all chains are listed. Like every other ip6tables command, it applies to the -specified table (filter is the default), so NAT rules get listed by -.nf - ip6tables -t nat -n -L -.fi +specified table (filter is the default). +.IP "" Please note that it is often used with the \fB-n\fP option, in order to avoid long reverse DNS lookups. It is legal to specify the \fB-Z\fP @@ -368,19 +366,6 @@ would pass through all three. The other main difference is that \fB-i\fP refers to the input interface; \fB-o\fP refers to the output interface, and both are available for packets entering the \fBFORWARD\fP chain. -.\" .PP The various forms of NAT have been separated out; -.\" .B iptables -.\" is a pure packet filter when using the default `filter' table, with -.\" optional extension modules. This should simplify much of the previous -.\" confusion over the combination of IP masquerading and packet filtering -.\" seen previously. So the following options are handled differently: -.\" .br -.\" -j MASQ -.\" .br -.\" -M -S -.\" .br -.\" -M -L -.\" .br There are several other changes in ip6tables. .SH SEE ALSO .BR ip6tables-save (8), @@ -391,7 +376,7 @@ There are several other changes in ip6tables. .BR libipq (3). .P The packet-filtering-HOWTO details iptables usage for -packet filtering, the NAT-HOWTO details NAT, +packet filtering, the netfilter-extensions-HOWTO details the extensions that are not in the standard distribution, and the netfilter-hacking-HOWTO details the netfilter internals. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
