[CentOS] Regd: iptables port forward and response from the forwarding port

Thu Dec 13 22:21:52 UTC 2007
Fajar Priyanto <fajarpri at cbn.net.id>

On Thursday 13 December 2007 21:18:14 Balaji wrote:
> I need to implement some sort of transparent proxy server for the rsync
> protocol. (In case you don't know: rsync uses tcp and the standard port
> 873).
>
> I want to port forward the rsync client request to server2 from server1 and
> Details are given below
>
> 1. I am Execute the rsync command from client to server1
> (192.168.13.165:8888 i.e with dummy port number ) 2. In Server1
> 192.168.13.165 will redirect the rsync request from client to sever2
> (192.168.13.205 with default port number) 3. Transfer the data from server2
> to rsync client

Hi Balaji,
In server1:
- activate ip_forwarding in sysctl.conf, then:
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -d ipofserver1 --dport 8888 -j 
DNAT --to-destination ipofserver2:873

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