Redirecting all IP over USB traffic to a fixed address
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Say I have a device connected by IP over USB to my computer (running Ubuntu), that connects to 10.0.0.1. I configured my Ubuntu's Wifi over USB so that my computer's IP on that connection is 10.0.0.1, but I would actually like to redirect all traffic (on all ports) to another server, and just use my computer as a proxy.
I played around with some solutions, but my lack of familiarity with network concepts is slowing me down (I spend too much time looking stuff up, and the documentation is often a bit lacking). I'm not even sure if I want to set up a proxy, a firewall (I don't think so), or use the routing tables. What I want to do sounds pretty simple ("redirect anything coming from IP over USB to that server over there"). So is there a standard way of doing that? iptables? squid? ufw?
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Say I have a device connected by IP over USB to my computer (running Ubuntu), that connects to 10.0.0.1. I configured my Ubuntu's Wifi over USB so that my computer's IP on that connection is 10.0.0.1, but I would actually like to redirect all traffic (on all ports) to another server, and just use my computer as a proxy.
I played around with some solutions, but my lack of familiarity with network concepts is slowing me down (I spend too much time looking stuff up, and the documentation is often a bit lacking). I'm not even sure if I want to set up a proxy, a firewall (I don't think so), or use the routing tables. What I want to do sounds pretty simple ("redirect anything coming from IP over USB to that server over there"). So is there a standard way of doing that? iptables? squid? ufw?
linux networking iptables
edited Aug 21 at 8:18
Rui F Ribeiro
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asked Aug 12 '13 at 14:14
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For this use case, forget about USB. The network device driver presents the hardware in exactly the same way as any other network device. So if you find a generic solution, it will work for this, or any other Ethernet device.
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Say I have a device connected by IP over USB to my computer (running Ubuntu), that connects to 10.0.0.1. I configured my Ubuntu's Wifi over USB so that my computer's IP on that connection is 10.0.0.1, but I would actually like to redirect all traffic (on all ports) to another server, and just use my computer as a proxy.
I played around with some solutions, but my lack of familiarity with network concepts is slowing me down (I spend too much time looking stuff up, and the documentation is often a bit lacking). I'm not even sure if I want to set up a proxy, a firewall (I don't think so), or use the routing tables. What I want to do sounds pretty simple ("redirect anything coming from IP over USB to that server over there"). So is there a standard way of doing that? iptables? squid? ufw?
linux networking iptables
edited Aug 21 at 8:18
Rui F Ribeiro
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asked Aug 12 '13 at 14:14
Emile
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Say I have a device connected by IP over USB to my computer (running Ubuntu), that connects to 10.0.0.1. I configured my Ubuntu's Wifi over USB so that my computer's IP on that connection is 10.0.0.1, but I would actually like to redirect all traffic (on all ports) to another server, and just use my computer as a proxy.
I played around with some solutions, but my lack of familiarity with network concepts is slowing me down (I spend too much time looking stuff up, and the documentation is often a bit lacking). I'm not even sure if I want to set up a proxy, a firewall (I don't think so), or use the routing tables. What I want to do sounds pretty simple ("redirect anything coming from IP over USB to that server over there"). So is there a standard way of doing that? iptables? squid? ufw?
linux networking iptables
linux networking iptables
edited Aug 21 at 8:18
Rui F Ribeiro
36.7k1271116
asked Aug 12 '13 at 14:14
Emile
1063
edited Aug 21 at 8:18
Rui F Ribeiro
36.7k1271116
asked Aug 12 '13 at 14:14
Emile
1063
edited Aug 21 at 8:18
Rui F Ribeiro
36.7k1271116
edited Aug 21 at 8:18
Rui F Ribeiro
36.7k1271116
edited Aug 21 at 8:18
Rui F Ribeiro
36.7k1271116
36.7k1271116
asked Aug 12 '13 at 14:14
Emile
1063
asked Aug 12 '13 at 14:14
Emile
1063
asked Aug 12 '13 at 14:14
Emile
1063
1063
migrated from serverfault.com Aug 12 '13 at 15:03
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migrated from serverfault.com Aug 12 '13 at 15:03
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For this use case, forget about USB. The network device driver presents the hardware in exactly the same way as any other network device. So if you find a generic solution, it will work for this, or any other Ethernet device.
– EEAA
Aug 12 '13 at 14:19
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For this use case, forget about USB. The network device driver presents the hardware in exactly the same way as any other network device. So if you find a generic solution, it will work for this, or any other Ethernet device.
– EEAA
Aug 12 '13 at 14:19
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For this use case, forget about USB. The network device driver presents the hardware in exactly the same way as any other network device. So if you find a generic solution, it will work for this, or any other Ethernet device.
– EEAA
Aug 12 '13 at 14:19
For this use case, forget about USB. The network device driver presents the hardware in exactly the same way as any other network device. So if you find a generic solution, it will work for this, or any other Ethernet device.
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What you are asking for is known as a NAT, a Network Address Translation. There are a number of tools that can provide NAT functionality, but at the IP address level it is probably easiest with iptables:
iptables -t nat -I PREROUTING -d 10.0.0.1 --j DNAT --to 10.x.x.x
in the special nat table of iptables -t nat, insert at the first rule on the PREROUTING chain (-I PREROUTING), providing a destination nat -j DNAT where the incoming destination IP is to 10.0.0.1 (-d 10.0.0.1) over to the host 10.x.x.x (--to 10.x.x.x).
You may also need enable IP Fowarding, so your host acts as a network router with:
sysctl -w net.ipv4.ip_forward=1
And that should be it! (Just as simple as you thought it might be!)
Oh and both of these need to be ran as the root user, or via sudo (if you have access to run those commands via sudo!)
answered Aug 12 '13 at 22:03
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1 Answer
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What you are asking for is known as a NAT, a Network Address Translation. There are a number of tools that can provide NAT functionality, but at the IP address level it is probably easiest with iptables:
iptables -t nat -I PREROUTING -d 10.0.0.1 --j DNAT --to 10.x.x.x
in the special nat table of iptables -t nat, insert at the first rule on the PREROUTING chain (-I PREROUTING), providing a destination nat -j DNAT where the incoming destination IP is to 10.0.0.1 (-d 10.0.0.1) over to the host 10.x.x.x (--to 10.x.x.x).
You may also need enable IP Fowarding, so your host acts as a network router with:
sysctl -w net.ipv4.ip_forward=1
And that should be it! (Just as simple as you thought it might be!)
Oh and both of these need to be ran as the root user, or via sudo (if you have access to run those commands via sudo!)
answered Aug 12 '13 at 22:03
Drav Sloan
9,20023038
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up vote
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What you are asking for is known as a NAT, a Network Address Translation. There are a number of tools that can provide NAT functionality, but at the IP address level it is probably easiest with iptables:
iptables -t nat -I PREROUTING -d 10.0.0.1 --j DNAT --to 10.x.x.x
in the special nat table of iptables -t nat, insert at the first rule on the PREROUTING chain (-I PREROUTING), providing a destination nat -j DNAT where the incoming destination IP is to 10.0.0.1 (-d 10.0.0.1) over to the host 10.x.x.x (--to 10.x.x.x).
You may also need enable IP Fowarding, so your host acts as a network router with:
sysctl -w net.ipv4.ip_forward=1
And that should be it! (Just as simple as you thought it might be!)
Oh and both of these need to be ran as the root user, or via sudo (if you have access to run those commands via sudo!)
answered Aug 12 '13 at 22:03
Drav Sloan
9,20023038
add a comment |Â
up vote
4
down vote
up vote
4
down vote
What you are asking for is known as a NAT, a Network Address Translation. There are a number of tools that can provide NAT functionality, but at the IP address level it is probably easiest with iptables:
iptables -t nat -I PREROUTING -d 10.0.0.1 --j DNAT --to 10.x.x.x
in the special nat table of iptables -t nat, insert at the first rule on the PREROUTING chain (-I PREROUTING), providing a destination nat -j DNAT where the incoming destination IP is to 10.0.0.1 (-d 10.0.0.1) over to the host 10.x.x.x (--to 10.x.x.x).
You may also need enable IP Fowarding, so your host acts as a network router with:
sysctl -w net.ipv4.ip_forward=1
And that should be it! (Just as simple as you thought it might be!)
Oh and both of these need to be ran as the root user, or via sudo (if you have access to run those commands via sudo!)
answered Aug 12 '13 at 22:03
Drav Sloan
9,20023038
What you are asking for is known as a NAT, a Network Address Translation. There are a number of tools that can provide NAT functionality, but at the IP address level it is probably easiest with iptables:
iptables -t nat -I PREROUTING -d 10.0.0.1 --j DNAT --to 10.x.x.x
in the special nat table of iptables -t nat, insert at the first rule on the PREROUTING chain (-I PREROUTING), providing a destination nat -j DNAT where the incoming destination IP is to 10.0.0.1 (-d 10.0.0.1) over to the host 10.x.x.x (--to 10.x.x.x).
You may also need enable IP Fowarding, so your host acts as a network router with:
sysctl -w net.ipv4.ip_forward=1
And that should be it! (Just as simple as you thought it might be!)
Oh and both of these need to be ran as the root user, or via sudo (if you have access to run those commands via sudo!)
answered Aug 12 '13 at 22:03
Drav Sloan
9,20023038
edited Aug 12 '13 at 23:55
answered Aug 12 '13 at 22:03
Drav Sloan
9,20023038
answered Aug 12 '13 at 22:03
Drav Sloan
9,20023038
answered Aug 12 '13 at 22:03
Drav Sloan
9,20023038
9,20023038
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For this use case, forget about USB. The network device driver presents the hardware in exactly the same way as any other network device. So if you find a generic solution, it will work for this, or any other Ethernet device.
– EEAA
Aug 12 '13 at 14:19