From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "U.Mutlu" Subject: Re: IPTABLES + PREROUTING + --set-mark + Ubuntu Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 03:35:03 +0100 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: netfilter-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: netfilter@vger.kernel.org The Media Server wrote, On 01/16/2015 03:24 AM: >> A hint: >> I think you have to send packets from another host to this host >> to let the pkts go thru the PREROUTING chain of the mangle table. > > I am accessing my port 81 from another computer via my public ISP address.. > http://198.xx.x.xx.x > > I can see my connection in tcpdump port 80 trying to get in and the > MARK packet increasing in iptables -t mangle -nvL. But my connection > is still timing out. > > my goal is to bypass my vpn for a specific port.. Does ssh login to your host from another host work? Ie.: ssh -p22 username@hostname_or_ip (change 22 if your ssh-server on your host is operating at an other port)