Does anyone know how the data is processed? Does it perform a lookup if it is, ie: icmp,tcp,udp etc or does it store it in numeric form? -----Original Message----- From: netfilter-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:netfilter-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alistair Tonner Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 11:14 AM To: netfilter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Destination Nat On June 2, 2004 07:19 am, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > -p 6 is the same as -p tcp only a little faster as it does not have to > look up tcp in the protocols file and translate it from tcp to 6. UDP > would be -p 17, ICMP -p 1, ESP -p 50, etc. That lookup would only be done when the rule was posted or loaded. Thus - the time saving is only on loading the rule. I believe that the rule data is *all* stored in numeric form ... But I could be completely wrong on that front. Alistair. > > On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 23:38, John Black wrote: > > thanks, ill give it a try tomorrow when i get to work. what is the -p 6? > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: John A. Sullivan III <john.sullivan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > To: <black@xxxxxxxxx> > > Cc: <netfilter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Sent: Friday, May 28, 2004 8:56 PM > > Subject: Re: Destination Nat > > > > > If I understand you correctly and remember your original rule, then I > > > think you have it backward. If you are changing the destination, you > > > probably want to change it from the public address to the private > > > address: > > > > john
