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improve REDIRECT manpage

PATCH In review Jonas Berlin 2 participants 2 messages Mar 14, 2005 – Mar 15, 2005 netfilter

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PATCH 1/1 improve REDIRECT manpage

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Added a line about the fact that the new destination address is the primary address of the incoming interface.

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extensions/libipt_REDIRECT.man +4 -3
@@ -5,9 +5,10 @@
 and
 .B OUTPUT
 chains, and user-defined chains which are only called from those
-chains.  It alters the destination IP address to send the packet to
-the machine itself (locally-generated packets are mapped to the
-127.0.0.1 address).  It takes one option:
+chains.  It redirects the packet to the machine itself by changing the
+destination IP to the primary address of the incoming interface
+(locally-generated packets are mapped to the 127.0.0.1 address).  It
+takes one option:
 .TP
 .BR "--to-ports " "\fIport\fP[-\fIport\fP]"
 This specifies a destination port or range of ports to use: without
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Quoted 6 lines · Jonas Berlin

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Added a line about the fact that the new destination address is the primary address of the incoming interface.

Also applied, thanks.