Re: Netfilter journey of a locally generated packet?

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On Mon, April 24, 2006 20:43, Pierre-Marie Wecowski wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there an exact and complete diagram of a packet journey inside
> netfilter?
>
> I have found something strange that may require some explanation:
>
> I am running Linux 2.6.11 on a device with two network interfaces.
>
> When I generate locally (local process) a packet (UDP for instance) with
> a source address of one interface and a destination address of the
> other, the packet go through PREROUTING chain in the mangle table but
> not in the nat table.
>
> Is there a reason behind this behaviour?

Because the IP is not NAT-ed, just routed ??


Gr,
Rob





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