From: Florian Westphal Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 16:15:43 +0000 (+0200) Subject: iptables.8: nat table has four builtin chains X-Git-Tag: v1.6.1~93 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d7b813f0a097f81c5781a6a6f08c1d41a4affead;p=thirdparty%2Fiptables.git iptables.8: nat table has four builtin chains SNAT section in iptables-extensions(8) already mentions this but the main section did not. Reported-by: Lion Yang Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal --- diff --git a/iptables/iptables.8.in b/iptables/iptables.8.in index 7401cc7c..5a8c7ae1 100644 --- a/iptables/iptables.8.in +++ b/iptables/iptables.8.in @@ -103,8 +103,9 @@ the built-in chains \fBINPUT\fP (for packets destined to local sockets), .TP \fBnat\fP: This table is consulted when a packet that creates a new -connection is encountered. It consists of three built-ins: \fBPREROUTING\fP -(for altering packets as soon as they come in), \fBOUTPUT\fP +connection is encountered. It consists of four built-ins: \fBPREROUTING\fP +(for altering packets as soon as they come in), \fBINPUT\fP (for altering +packets destined for local sockets), \fBOUTPUT\fP (for altering locally-generated packets before routing), and \fBPOSTROUTING\fP (for altering packets as they are about to go out). IPv6 NAT support is available since kernel 3.7.