In the prerouting stage I assume because that is the place where DNAT takes place. Also take note they say "PREROUTING" for a good reason though I haven't tested it with iproute2 and source routing but I assume they are in the same level. Just remember that POSTROUTING is after the routing table.. as it says in it's name (he he, gotta love those netfilter developers).. Add some LOG rules matching both sets of IPs your testing. Thanks, ____________________________________________ George Vieira Systems Manager georgev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Citadel Computer Systems Pty Ltd http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au -----Original Message----- From: Tim Saunders [mailto:Tim.Saunders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, May 23, 2003 12:51 AM To: netfilter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: UnNATing return packets When a TCP connection goes through a netfilter firewall and is SNATed and DNATed when do the return packets get unNATed? i.e. a packet comes into the firewall from a client requesting a tcp session, it is SNATed and DNATed and sent to the server, the server sends and ack response, this gets to the firewall. When do the original source and destination addresses (from the session request packet) get put back? Is it before or after routing? I am trying to do source routing of return packets based on the address the client originally thought it was targeting. Packets come in destined for 80.5.94.150 and get DNATed to 10.136.1.7 they also get SNATed to 10.136.1.254. I have a rule to route packets from 80.5.94.150 via a different routing table with a default route that goes out of a differen't line to normal but the packets still get routed out of the normal line. It is possible my source routing is at fault. I am using the following commands: I have added "15 sr1" to /etc/iproute2/rt_tables. # ip rule add from 80.5.94.150 table sr1 # ip route add default via 80.5.94.129 dev eth3 table sr1 # ip route flush cache One more thing that may be important eth3 has an IP in 80.5.94.128/25 and an IP in 10.234.1.0/24 that goes to a router for the other line. Any help greatly appreciated. Tim Saunders
