IPTables question

Ben Scott dragonhawk at gmail.com
Thu Dec 15 16:56:01 EST 2005


On 12/15/05, klussier at comcast.net <klussier at comcast.net> wrote:
> The clients IP address can change from, say, 192.168.0.3 to 192.168.0.54 (or any other
> address, I'm just making these up), but the session to the server needs to be maintained.

  I don't think that is possible with "off the shelf" IPTables.  I'm
think you could do it with enough custom code, but not easily.

 > The NAT box will know when the ip address changes and what the new
address is.

  How does it know that?

  Can you explain what the situation is?

-- Ben



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