DNAT Mapping onto multiple ports?

[Harald Welte]

On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 03:07:14PM -0400, Evan Jones wrote:
> Short version:
> 
> Are these two rules equivalent? Why/Why not?
> iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -j DNAT --to-destination :2000-3000
> 
> iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -j DNAT --to-destination :2000

Why would You ever want to do DNAT to more than one port? Where should
the stack know from, which packet to DNAT to which port?

I don't see why anybody may want to do this, and I don't think that this
is supported in any way by netfilter.

> Evan Jones - ejones@netwinder.org

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