Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 16:05 -0700, Tom Eastep wrote:
>> Only packets in the NEW state
> 
> Which is only the first few packets which establish a connection, yes?
> 
>>  traverse the nat table.
> 
> I must be missing something then.  All packets leaving the gateway need
> to be NATted, not just the ones that create the ESTABLISHED state,
> right?

Once the conntrack table entry is built, there is no further need of the
nat table rules.

-Tom
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