'-t nat -A OUTPUT -j REDIRECT' changes source address ?

[paddy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Hi,

I was trying

iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -p udp --dport 9998 -j SNAT --to 10.0.0.3
iptables -t nat -A OUTPUT -p udp --dport 9998 -j REDIRECT --to-port 514

as part of an increasingly hair-brained scheme to tunnel syslogs to a
master server.

I should mention that the source of this connection is local - the end
of a pipeline of ssh and netcats, I'm trying to restore a usefull
source ip address based on the information in the destination port no.
while redirecting to 514/syslog.

Is this the expected behaviour ?

Any suggestions on sensible ways to do this ?

Many thanks,

Paddy