Re: NAT and loopback

Phil Dibowitz <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.firewalls.ipfilter
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Simon-Bernard Drolet wrote:
> Phil Dibowitz wrote:
>> [email protected] wrote:
>>   
>>> Hi guys
>>>
>>> I would like to create a local L4 load balancing so that the following
>>> is true (the host has IP address 10.226.32.111):
>>>
>>> TCP connection to 127.0.0.1/port 1500 on the host gets redirected to
>>> 10.226.33.150/1500 the first time.
>>>     
>>
>> What OS? As far as I know, you can't do anything on the loopback interface
>> in Solaris since it's not a real interface.
>>   
> 
> Hi Phil, Miguel,
> 
> With the stock IP Filter in S10u6, or at least Solaris 10 8/07, you can:

Very cool. I'll make sure this makes it's way into the FAQ which I sorely
need to update. Thanks.

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