Once the NAT rule kicks in for certain session all the subsequent packets of that session would bypass the nat rules... Ramin On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 02:38:55PM -0600, Paul Albert wrote: > Hi - > > I'm trying to do some firewalling on every packet that goes through our > firewall. We're doing our filtering in the PREROUTING chain (not > recommended, I realize), because we must do our firewalling to determine > whether we need to NAT a request. There are times when the NAT > PREROUTING chain is bypassed, and I'm not exactly sure why. The docs > say that "it will be bypassed in certain cases," however I cannot > determine what these cases are. > > Why are the packets getting sent past the NAT PREROUTING chain? > Is there a way to send all of the data through this chain? > > Regards, > Paul >
