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