Quick and easy iptables based proxy
Today was a busy day dealing with power outage that affected 2100 businesses in downtown Calgary. Of course, couple of my clients were in the zone that went dark. I offered them to run their key infrastructure from my place for couple of days. Everything went great, except I have only 1 IP address on my connection. That's not good when both clients want to come in on port 443. What to do? Call up my ISP and order another IP? Nope: Takes too long, too expensive, I just need this temporarily. Also, ISP might mess it up and take me offline for a while. Get VM with IPv4 IP and proxy the traffic over? Yes, but why go with something heavy handed like nginx? I prefer this elegant solution brought to you by iptables: # echo 1 >| /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward # iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -d $IP_OF_VM --dport 443 -j DNAT --to $IP_WHERE_IM_FORWARDING_TO:8443 # iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -j MASQUERADE