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[ILUG] Shorewall gurus: Connection redirect problem

[ILUG] Shorewall gurus: Connection redirect problem

Thomas Pedoussaut thomas at staffeurs.org
Fri Sep 16 15:41:51 IST 2011


Even though you can direct traffic from external-to-external, unless 
it's usng a local proxy like balance, the response will fly directly 
from the external server to the client, and so arriving out-of-context.

On 16/09/11 16:12, Kenn Humborg wrote:
>> Have you set "net.ipv4.ip_forward=1" in /etc/sysctl.conf?
> Yup.  DNAT from outside to inside (e.g. port 80 on firewall
> goes to internal web server) and SNAT from inside to
> outside (internal machine opens TCP connection to
> external host) are working fine.
>
> It's just this external-to-external bit that's not working.
>
> Later,
> Kenn
>
>
>



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