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author/C=DE/ST=Berlin/L=Berlin/O=Netfilter Project/OU=Development/CN=kaber/emailAddress=kaber@netfilter.org </C=DE/ST=Berlin/L=Berlin/O=Netfilter Project/OU=Development/CN=kaber/emailAddress=kaber@netfilter.org>2005-03-15 19:20:14 +0000
committer/C=DE/ST=Berlin/L=Berlin/O=Netfilter Project/OU=Development/CN=kaber/emailAddress=kaber@netfilter.org </C=DE/ST=Berlin/L=Berlin/O=Netfilter Project/OU=Development/CN=kaber/emailAddress=kaber@netfilter.org>2005-03-15 19:20:14 +0000
commit49b8086b79cdbd5a21c0a34818d51e9851471e48 (patch)
treef4c3dee4b0cae70d503eeb6b567386a8b066ffd9 /extensions
parentd0a29b315aaba0ecf370aaa5a03b4384c8fca2b8 (diff)
[PATCH] improve REDIRECT manpage (Jonas Berlin <xkr47@outerspace.dyndns.org>)
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-rw-r--r--extensions/libipt_REDIRECT.man7
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/extensions/libipt_REDIRECT.man b/extensions/libipt_REDIRECT.man
index 19fa917..aeca3cb 100644
--- a/extensions/libipt_REDIRECT.man
+++ b/extensions/libipt_REDIRECT.man
@@ -5,9 +5,10 @@ table, in the
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