I have figured out what my problem was. My machine had ip forwarding disabled. Thanks for you help. On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Antony Stone wrote: > On Tuesday 11 November 2003 9:59 pm, Leonid Veytser wrote: > > > When I dump the output of all the packets traveling thru my machine, I > > notice that none go thru FORWARD hook. > > There's no other way packets are going to get routed through your machine > except by passing through the FORWARD chain. > > > So, I tried to make a packet have > > to go thru the FORWARD hook (ie by changing the packet dest at PREROUTING > > hook), but the packet never goes to the FORWARD hook, but disappears. > > Show us an example of your rules so we can see what you are trying to do. > > > Can there be some incorrect configuration on my machine that would cause > > it not to be able to forward packets? > > There are many ways of (mis)configuring a machine so that it doesn't forward > packets. Some people might say this is a highly secure router :) > > Antony. > > -- > > Your email has been returned due to insufficient voltage. > Please reply to the list; > please don't CC me. > >
