We are moving from an IPv4 only environment to a mixed IPv4/IPv6 environment.
As a part of this exercise, we also need to transform our iptables settings to settings for ip6tables.
This seems to work, apart for one item, which is a redirection of a tcp port of one of our servers to another port on the same server.
On this server, we use for iptables a REDIRECT for the nat table.
This does not work for ip6tables. It complains that it does not know the option --to-port.
My question is how to do such a port redirect with ip6tables.
When I searched the archives of this mailing list, I found that this question pops up about once every two years,
but a real answer I could not find. The contribution that comes the closest to an answer is from 5 years ago:
http://marc.info/?l=netfilter&m=111219622601073&w=2
I fully agree with what is said there about NAT.
But I wonder whether the discussions, mentioned there, are still continuing, or that it resulted in some decision
and whether something has been implemented in these five years.
(Is there someone with inside information from the core team?)
If nothing has been implemented yet, are there plans to do so in the near future,
or are there any recommendations for alternative solutions?
Regards,
Fred.Zwarts.
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