Re: port forwarding not working

[Ray Leach <raymondl@knowledgefactory.co.za>]

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On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 15:57, Nick Vazirianis wrote:
> iptables v1.2.8
> Linux Fedora Core 1
> Kernel 2.6.3
>  
> I am having some trouble getting port forwarding within the attached
> script.
>  Please refer the line starting     # enable port forwarding for
> BitTorrent
> Incoming packets to these ports are being dropped (and logged) by the
> section lower down in the script, I have tried adding the enable port
>  forward section in different parts of the script, but this makes no
> difference.
>  
> could soneone please help, I even tried adding the line 
> $IPTABLES -A INPUT -i $EXT_IF -p tcp --dport 6881:6885 -j ACCEPT
> but i believe this only allows incoming into the firwall and not
> redirecting to another host
>  
> someone please help 
Maybe the source s not 6881 ...
$IPTABLES -A FORWARD -s 6881 -p tcp --dport 6881 -j ACCEPT
try
$IPTABLES -A FORWARD -p tcp --dport 6881 -j ACCEPT
instead
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