Using iptables to redirect

["Flavio C. Prado" <fprado@pmovil.com.br>]

Hello everyone,


I have a question: is it possible to use iptables to redirect every packet
received by a host to another entirely different host (transparently for the
user)?

I ask this because the company I work in is moving gradually to another
office space, which offers a different IP than our current office space. I
need to somehow redirect every packet received by my current IP to my new
IP. I tried using iptables for that using the following line:

iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -p tcp  \
-j DNAT --to-destination XXX.YYY.ZZZ.WWW

But that didn't work. I tried using -j REDIRECT, but it seems this only
works to redirect packets to itself, not other hosts.

Sorry about my poor English, but it's not my primary tongue.


Regards,


Flavio C. Prado
fprado@pmovil.com.br
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