hi, On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 07:15:28AM -0600, Ted Fines wrote: > I looked in the man page for IPTables (1.2.5) for this, but couldn't find > it. > > If I have a rule in the nat table, PREROUTING chain, which directs the > packet to DNAT (eg -j DNAT --to 1.2.3.4), what happens to the packet next? depends on your rule. for example if the rule say drop it will go to nirvana. > What ruleset is the packet next compared against? again. depends on the rule. in general if the rule applies trhat rule is taken and nothing more gets checked (except for some special targets), if it does not match the next rule in the chain is compared to the packet. if you're at the end of that chain the default policy is used.
ciao sascha -- Sascha Andres [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.programmers-world.com
