Re: Port Forwarding Problem

["Samuel Díaz García" <samueldg@arcoscom.com>]

Without having a look into your scripts, I think you need:

1) Allow INPUT into filter table to the port.
2) Allow FORDWARD into filter table to the redirected conection.

Good luck.

Julian Labuschagne writes:

> Hi everyone I'm a bit new to iptables so please bear with me on this one
> ;)
>
> I wrote a small firewall that basicaly nats users through my gateway
> machine only allowing certain hosts on my network Web DNS and Mail access.
>
> This section works fine.
>
> But I also want to port forward any connections from outside to port 800
> to a host running inside my LAN.
> I added a rule in the PREROUTING table to do this.
>
> But it seems that no connection gets forwarded.
>
> If I set my default policies to ACCEPT and add the PREROUTING rule it
> actualy does the port forwarding correctly.
>
> I attached a copy of the firewall I wrote with this message.
>
> Please can someone have a look through it for me cause I'm sure I'm just
> missing something.
>
> Kind Regards Julian.
>
>
>



Samuel D�az Garc�a
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