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From: Antony Stone <Antony@Soft-Solutions.co.uk>
Subject: Re: newbie question
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 13:02:49 +0100
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On Thursday 08 April 2004 12:57 pm, M. Ahmad Ijaz wrote:

> when i try to use this command
>
> iptables -A PREROUTING -s xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy -p tcp -m tcp
> --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-ports 8080
>
> where xxx is any IP and yyy is the subnet mask, it returns me the same
> message i.e. iptables: No chain/target/match by that name
>
> So it also give the same message with POSTROUTING.

You need a "-t nat" in there, to tell it the rule is going into the nat table 
of the PREROUTING chain, not the filter table (which is the default, but does 
not exist in PREROUTING).

Regards,

Antony.

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