On Thursday 04 July 2002 7:48 pm, Jan Humme wrote:

> On Thursday 04 July 2002 20:20, Antony Stone wrote:

> > # Redirect http requests to local proxy
> > iptables -A PREROUTING -t nat -p tcp --dport 80 -j DNAT 127.0.0.1:80
>
> Antony, just for my understanding: is this any different from:
>
> iptables -A PREROUTING -t nat -p tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT   ?

No.   I just find the name 'redirect' a bit ambiguous (I mean, it could 
redirect it somewhere else, couldn't it, but no, it only redirects it to the 
local machine...) therefore I use DNAT which I'm familiar with from other 
uses.

 

Antony.

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