Re: DNAT "--to" versus "--to-destination"

[Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 2012-02-11 01:35, Rodney Beede wrote:

>On the web I see examples like:
>
>iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 80 -j DNAT
>--to-destination 10.1.1.1:8080
>
>However in the documentation
>(http://www.netfilter.org/documentation/HOWTO//NAT-HOWTO-6.html#ss6.2)
>I see:
>
>iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -j DNAT --to 5.6.7.8
>
>Why is this or what does the difference mean?

That whoever wrote the NAT-HOWTO had a system with a getopt(3)
function that supports unique abbreviations.
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