On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 22:14, Cedric Blancher wrote: > Le mer 11/02/2004 à 22:53, Richard Bown a écrit : > > I suspect from the results I've seen running 2.6.2 with iptables-1.2.9 > > that the handling of DNAT & SNAT is very different. > > Afaik, from a user point of vue, there's no difference between 2.4 and > 2.6. I'm using a 2.6.1 kernel on which all the scripts I've written for > 2.4 kernels are working just the way they did before, for filtering, > mangling and nating... > > What kind of results makes you believe there are major differences on > NAT handling ? > Hi Cedric I'm using MDK 9.2 and iptables-1.2.9-4mdk plus shorewall 1.4.8-3mdk with kernel 2.4.22-26mddk when trying to run with kernel -2.6.2 shorewall stopped after an iptable invalid argument o n a rule starting DNAT. That rule was hashed out and all rules loaded , until the masq section which again halted shorewall. I tried an iptables -F to flush out all rules and allow networking but no avail. I really would like to knoqw whats happening so I understand what to do. Richard > One big difference is bridge interfaces handling, as physical interfaces > cannot get matched using -i/-o switches anymore (br0 is seen through > them) so you have to use physdev match. -- Richard Bown <richard.bown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>