The routing decision is done after OUTPUT chains in both nat and mangle tables, and before POSTROUTING of course. Is this what you meant? On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 12:54:11 -0700, Kenneth Porter <shiva@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Can anyone confirm that the PREROUTING chain is absent from the OUTPUT > packet path? I wanted to tag my UDP packets with TOS Minimize-Delay so that > they'd go in my high-priority traffic shaping queues, but if PREROUTING > isn't used in the output path, the packets can't be tagged until after > they've been through the shaper. (Isn't the shaper part of "routing > decision" in the diagrams?) > > -- Bla bla