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On Friday 01 January 2010, Alexander wrote: |
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> On Friday 01 January 2010 03:07:42 Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: |
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> > On Thursday 31 December 2009, Alexander wrote: |
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> > > Is there a way to redirect TCP connections from external network |
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> > > interfaces to the local/loopback in network 127.0.0.0/8? I need |
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> > > functionality like DNAT target in iptables. |
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> > Uh...why don't you use DNAT then? |
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> This doesn't work, because kernel drops any packets that come from external |
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> network to 127.0.0.0/8. |
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Of course it does. But in these cases, the workaround is assigning a non-127 |
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address to the lo interface, like 192.168.0.1/32 for example, and DNAT to that |
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address (and have whatever program should receive the data listen on |
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192.168.0.1, of course). |
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