Port redirection on same machine

[AussieGuySyd]

I want to redirect traffic from one port to another port on the same machine.

ive done iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth0 tcp --dport 28080 -j REDIRECT --to-port 80 .... just as a test (ive used a basic apache for test purposes, it will be with a different service later on) when I telnet to port 28080 on localhost, it refuses the connection but port 80 accepts a connection.

robbie@r220-....-.....:~$ sudo iptables -t nat -nv -L
Chain PREROUTING (policy ACCEPT 19890 packets, 1530K bytes)
pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination
0 0 REDIRECT tcp -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 tcp dpt:18080 redir ports 80
0 0 REDIRECT tcp -- eth0 * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 tcp dpt:28080 redir ports 80

[Lazydog]

I want to redirect traffic from one port to another port on the same machine.

ive done
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth0 tcp --dport 28080 -j REDIRECT --to-port 80

This rule only redirects packets that are coming in on the eth0 interface thus anything on the local interface is ignored by this rule.

[hexbinary]

anyway to get this to work with the local interface? Any hack will do. I need to intercept an outgoing connection from the localhost.

thanks