IPTABLES Flowchart

IN IN
PREROUTING
MANGLE NAT

eth0

OUT eth1 OUT

POSTROUTING
MANGLE NAT

FORWARD ROUTING
MANGLE FILTER

MANGLE FILTER

INPUT

OUTPUT
MANGLE NAT FILTER

ROUTING

LOCAL PROCESSES

IPCHAINS Flowchart

IN IN
INPUT
FILTER

eth0

OUT OUT eth1

OUTPUT
FILTER

FORWARD

ROUTING

MASQ FILTER

ROUTING

LOCAL PROCESSES

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IN
eth0
PREROUTING
MANGLE NAT

OUT
POSTROUTING
MANGLE NAT

INPUT
MANGLE FILTER

OUTPUT
MANGLE NAT FILTER

-j ACCEPT -j ACCEPT

DROP

DROP

LOCAL PROCESS

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IN IN
PREROUTING
MANGLE NAT

eth0 eth1

OUT OUT
POSTROUTING
MANGLE NAT

ROUTING
FORWARD
MANGLE FILTER

-j ACCEPT

DROP