I have a pretty straightforward question that I've been wondering. If I add an iptable redirect rule (e.g. dst tcp port 80 to tcp port 8080), it would change every tcp packet with port 80 as its destination to a tcp packet with destination 8080. Now if my application listening on 8080 were to reply to the source, it would transmit a tcp packet with src port 8080, but the source side is expecting a tcp packet with src port 80. So my question is, how does the reverse path from dest back to the src, at what point does the port number get rewritten from 8080 back to 80, making the redirect transparent? Is this done by iptable automatically on a redirect target? Thanks, Peter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
