iptables: No chain/target/match by that name

[Rashkae]

Christopher Bianchi wrote:
> hello ! i'm trying to configure nat portforwarding for my virtualbox,
> not with VBoxManage but with iptables, but the problem is this:
> 
> ienabellamy at charlotte:~/Bin$ sudo iptables -A PREROUTING -p tcp -m tcp
> --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-ports 8080
> 
> iptables: No chain/target/match by that name
> 
> The error means that i'm missing some module ?
> 
> thanks for the help !
> 
> 
> 
> 

Remove -m tcp

tcp module is loaded with --protocol tcp (your -p tcp) is used, not in a
-m argument.