Re: how do I port forward through loopback?

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On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 15:59, Mark wrote:
> Hello,
> I need to port forward all traffic locally going to port 80 to port 
> 8040.  For the external interface eth0 this works, I thought it would 
> work for the internal/loopback as well. Nothing else is turned on
> , all other settings are open.
> 
> /sbin/iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT 
> --to-port 8040
> 
> this doesn't work for the internal network, 127.0.0.1 lo, not sure why
> System info: Redhat7.3, 2.4.20 kernel, iptables-1.2.8-8.72.3
> Thanks

To get nat to work on the local interface you have to compile the kernel
with local nat support. The catch is that normal nat stops working.

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