Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 16:15 -0700, Tom Eastep wrote:
>> Once the conntrack table entry is built, there is no further need of the
>> nat table rules.
> 
> Ahhh.  So you are saying that conntrack then does the natting necessary?

Yes.

> 
> So if I add a new rule such as:
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# iptables -t mangle -I tcpre -p udp --dport 4569 -j MARK 
> --set-mark 0x80
> 
> So that it gets SNATted with the right source address with:
> 
> Chain ppp0_masq (1 references)
>  pkts bytes target     prot opt in     out     source               
> destination         
>     0     0 MASQUERADE  all  --  *      *       10.75.22.0/24        
> 0.0.0.0/0           
>     0     0 SNAT       all  --  *      *       72.38.139.100        0.0.0.0/0 
>           to:66.11.173.224 
> 
> But already have a conntrack entry such as:
> 
> udp      17 175 src=10.75.22.3 dst=AA.BB.CCC.DDD sport=4569 dport=4569 
> src=AA.BB.CCC.DDD dst=72.38.139.100 sport=4569 dport=4569 [ASSURED] use=1 
> mark=64 bytes=8097545 
> 
> The SNATting will never actually happen then?

Once a conntrack entry is fully populated, the connections NAT
properties won't change.

Is there any way, short
> of stopping the application that is continuing to send the packets to
> destroy that connection so that it's recreated with the addresses and
> mark?

You can use a tool like 'cutter'.

-Tom
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