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IPTable: How to forward http traffic to two IPs

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I want to forward all http traffic coming in from a perticular IP at local port 8080, to 2 particular IP Addresses (port 80). Is it enough to prepend the following in my IPtable

-A PREROUTING -s xx.xx.xx.xx/24 -p tcp --dport 8080 -j DNAT --to-destination xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:80
-A PREROUTING -s xx.xx.xx.xx/24 -p tcp --dport 8080 -j DNAT --to-destination yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy:80

posted Jan 7, 2014 by Anderson

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If you put it that way only xxx will receive packets, to balance between both of them you will need this:

-A PREROUTING -s xx.xx.xx.xx/24 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 8080 -j DNAT --to-destination xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx-yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy:80

answer Jan 7, 2014 by Seema Siddique
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