How to do IPv6 port redirect on RHEL6?

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Issue

  • How to do ip6tables port redirect?

  • How to do IPv6 port redirect on RHEL6?

  • Currently we use iptables for IPv4 port redirection with either the REDIRECT or DNAT in the PREROUTING chain, however neither of these work on ip6tables:

iptables -A PREROUTING -t nat -d <serverIP> -p tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-port 8080

iptables -A PREROUTING -t nat -d <IP> -p tcp --dport 80 -j DNAT --to <IP>:8080

  • Can you provide a way to port forward with ip6tables?

  • ip6tables does not have the nat table in RHEL 6.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • IPv6
  • ip6tables IPv6 firewall

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