From: Jonas Berlin <xkr47@outerspace.dyndns.org>
Subject: [PATCH] improve REDIRECT manpage
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 14:08:47 +0200
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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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--- orig-iptables-1.3.1/extensions/libipt_REDIRECT.man	2004-10-10 12:56:24.000000000 +0300
+++ iptables-1.3.1/extensions/libipt_REDIRECT.man	2005-03-14 14:04:49.029809038 +0200
@@ -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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