Re: iptables -- trying to redirect, but doesn't work

[Trevor "TeC" Christian]

John G. Norman wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I'm trying to redirect from one port to another with iptables
> (destination NAT -- transparent proxying . . . e.g., "destination NAT"
> in this article: http://www.linux-mag.com/content/view/849/2236/).
>
> I've done this many times before, including on SuSE and various
> flavors of BSD (with ipfw).
>
> For some reason I can't get it to work on Fedora 3.
>
> I do have ip forwarding on (/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward shows 1)
>
> The command I am trying to use is:
>
> /sbin/iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 80 -j
> REDIRECT --to-port 8080

I think this should probably by 
    /sbin/iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 80 -j DNAT --to-port 8080

I believe that's what works for me...