On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 13:40, paridhi bansal wrote: > Hi!! > > I am a newbie to iptables...I was trying to understand > the hooks defined in netfilter.With natting enabled, > every pkt shld ideally come to Prerouting hook and > then only move to input hook if it is for local m/c > itself or forward hook if it is to be forwardedand > finally to postrouting.. > This is what i have understood..and i hope this is > correct..If not,,pls correct me and give ur comments.. > PREROUTING and POSTROUTING are only used when the packet is not destined for the local host... correct. > But my analysis of pkts says that sometimes, the pkts > meant for the local machine come directly to the input > hook rather than the prerouting hook..Is it > right?????Is yes, why/when does this happen??If no, > can what can be the case when this happens?? > That is correct. Since the packets are destined for the local host, there is no routing (or forwarding). > Paridhi > > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Shopping - Send Flowers for Valentine's Day > http://shopping.yahoo.com -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ( Raymond Leach ) ) Knowledge Factory ( ( ) ) Tel: +27 11 445 8100 ( ( Fax: +27 11 445 8101 ) ) ( ( http://www.knowledgefactory.co.za/ ) ) http://www.saptg.co.za/ ( ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ o o o o .--. .--. | o_o| |o_o | | \_:| |:_/ | / / \\ // \ \ ( | |) (| | ) /`\_ _/'\ /'\_ _/`\ \___)=(___/ \___)=(___/
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