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I have two interfaces eth1 and eth0. I want all traffic on eth0to be forwarded to eth1. I created an iptable rule like this:
iptables -A FORWARD -s 0/0 -i eth0 -p tcp -o eth1 -j ACCEPT
But this doesn't work. Is this the correct way of doing this?
If you haven't already enabled forwarding in the kernel, do so.
Open /etc/sysctl.conf and uncomment net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1
Then execute $ sudo sysctl -p
Add the following rules to iptables
sudo iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING --out-interface eth1 -j MASQUERADE
sudo iptables -A FORWARD --in-interface eth0 -j ACCEPT
All of the forwarded traffic will traverse the FORWARD chain. To filter packets you'll now have to create rules on that chain specifying which interface is incoming/outgoing instead of using the INPUT/OUTPUT chains.
