Re: tcp reassembly on gateway

From: shtirlitz_at_nonexisting.hamakor.org.il
Date: Sun 25 Jul 2004 - 01:22:06 IDT


> Simple: use transparent proxy support of IPTables to get the stream
> delivered to a chosen port on the gateway, analyze to your heart
> content, and then open a socket and send it back to original destination
> (using iptables NAT to mask the source to the original one, of course).
>

I have just looked at this. But I found one problem. When redirecting
connection to some other IP address the original destination ip and port
are lost. In case of http protocol it is not a problem because the html
header has a "host" value. But what about general case.

Is their any workaround ?

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