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Old 09-22-2005, 06:50 PM   #1
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sending out going traffic to the loopback interface with iptables


I am not very good with iptables rules and have been searching and reading for days trying to figure this out.

I want set a rule that will send all packets that are being sent out through eth0 to 127.0.0.1 or lo. From what I've read I may be able to do this with nat by using iptables to change the destination address.

Two rules I've tried are:

iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -j DNAT --to-destination 127.0.0.1
iptables -t nat -A OUTPUT -j DNAT --to-destination 127.0.0.1

These did not work correctly. Do they make any sense.
 
Old 09-22-2005, 07:36 PM   #2
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Nevermind, I believe that the -A OUTPUT rule does work for sending all traffice to 127.0.0.1
 
  


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