Thanks for that. One more question, does multicast route ? Or it'll be the same as broadcast ? Thanks again ! Rommy On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 15:49, George Vieira wrote: > Umm.. broadcasts don't route which is probably why it doesn't work. Your basically trying to use iptables as a bridging mechanism where you really need a bridge. > > If the rule didn't work and there is no p-o-m to do something funky like this then I think your out of luck.. but I might be wrong.. > > Thanks, > ____________________________________________ > George Vieira > Systems Manager > georgev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Citadel Computer Systems Pty Ltd > http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rommy Taslim [mailto:rommyt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 3:29 PM > To: netfilter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Forward UDP broadcast > > > Hi, > > Anyone knows how to forward UDP broadcast using iptables ? > I need to do something like ipportfw does: > ipportfw -A -u 192.168.4.255/699 -R 192.168.2.255/699 > > which forward all the broadcast on network 4 for port 699 to network 2. > > I have something like this for iptables: > > iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p udp \ > -d 192.168.4.255 --dport 699 \ > --to-destination 192.168.2.255:699 > > But it didn't work. > > Anyone can give me some pointers ?? > > Thanks in advance. > > Rommy >
