You have not used MASQUERADE in your POSTROUTING rules or haven't showed it.. iptables -A POSTROUTING -t nat -p tcp -s 192.168.0.42 -d 207.106.22.35 --dport 80 -j MASQUERADE iptables -A POSTROUTING -t nat -p tcp -s 192.168.0.23 -d 207.106.22.35 --dport 80 -j MASQUERADE without the rules above, the 192.168.0.XX packets leave the network out into the internet and eventually get dropped by some ISP... -----Original Message----- From: netfilter-admin@lists.netfilter.org [mailto:netfilter-admin@lists.netfilter.org]On Behalf Of ads nat Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 4:53 PM To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org Subject: SMTP HTTP port allow I am implimenting iptables for first time. I want to allow all my LAN users to send emails to SMTP (port no. 25) all destination with following code. : *** iptables -A FORWARD -p tcp --dport 25 -j ACCEPT *** I also want to allow LAN users having ip 192.168.0.42 192.168.0.23 to upload contents to webserver on ip 207.106.22.35 (outside of LAN) with following code. *** iptables -A FORWARD -p tcp -s 192.168.0.42 192.168.0.23 -d 207.106.22.35 --dport 80 -j ACCEPT *** I would loke know whether It works or not. Tell me whether my code is O.K. also where can i check logs. Thanks ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software