Re: Applying Nat rules during traffic

[sreejith menon <sreejithjmenon@xxxxxxxxx>]

> It's not a bug. The connection tracking table is independent from the
> ruleset by design. There is not much point in (automatically) changing
> the NAT tuples while a TCP connection is open anyway - since it would
> rupture the connection (and that's what can happen if you force it with
> conntrack -F.)

Thanks for the information. So even if i install xtables add on the
behavior will be the same.?
 ie if i was sending some icmp packets through output interface eth0,
i need to stop and start the traffic again after applying NAT.

I was thinking of installing x-tables add on to solve this.

regards
sreejith
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