Peter Rundle was once rumoured to have said:
> Sluggers,
> 
> I'm playing around with DNAT on iptables but whenever I try to put
> the rule in I just get an error "Invalid argument". I've looked at a
> number of examples on the net and they all seem to be doing the same
> thing that I am. Does anyone know if there is a version problem? 
> I've got kernel 2.4.7-10 and iptables 1.2.3-1
> 
> Basically I want to have my firewall allow http traffic through from
> the outside world to a linux box on the internal net but this is
> what happens..
> 
> # iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -p tcp -s 0/0 --dport 80 -j DNAT --to 
> 192.168.1.99
> iptables: Invalid argument
> 
> Cluesticks?

s/POSTROUTING/PREROUTING/

DNAT has to be applied before a routing decision is made so the
packets can be routed correctly.

C.
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