Re: Port Forwarding Question

[Michele Petrazzo - Unipex <michele.petrazzo@unipex.it>]

Aaron Clausen wrote:
>  With the 3Com router, I can, from another internal computer,
> access that server via the external interface (ie, by going
> http://publicaddress).  When I throw in my Linux router, it does not
> do that, and user's have to use the internal IP or host name to access
> the device.
>

What rules have you wrote?
an
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -s local_addrs/mask -d ip_addrs \
	 -p tcp --dport http -j DNAT --to-destionation internal_web
and the respective
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -d internal_web -p tcp --dport http -j 
SNAT --to-source gw_ip

must to the trick.

So the request stay inside the lan and there is no "loops"

Michele