Re: lost UDP packets with matching NAT rules

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  Hi,

On Wednesday 15 February 2006 18.16, Keserű Kornél wrote:
> Thanks for the explanation!
> Does this mean that a nat function, realized with a DNAT+SNAT rule
> pair will not work for many-to-one connections? What I wanted to
> realize with those rules is that UDP packets received from anywhere
> (several sources) are forwarded to one concrete destination and the
> source of the forwarded packets is always changed to the same.
> If so, would a NOTRACK rule in the raw table help here (don't track
> those connections)?

  Unfortunately not. You'd need stateless NAT for UDP, which is not (yet) 
implemented in Netfilter. (But occasionally it would be a really cool and 
useful feature.)

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KOVACS Krisztian




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