Howto configure openSuSE firewall to route local traffic to local ports

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Published on 2011-01-10T10:49:38Z Indexed on 2011/01/10 10:54 UTC
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I have openSUSE 11.3 installed. I'm using the openSUSE firewall configuration mechanism (/etc/sysconfig/SuSEfirewall2). I have a http server application running on port 8080. I want the http service to be accessible using port 80. I created a redirect rule usign:

FW_REDIRECT="0/0,0/0,tcp,80,8080"

This works fine for every request coming from external. But it doesn't for local requests. (example: wget http://myserver/)

Is there a way how I can tell the firewall to redirect local requests addressed for 80 to port 8080? (using the SUSE firewall configuration file)

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