If you're doing true port forwarding, the internal server should see the
ip address of the external machine in its logs.
This is how my machines log that do this, I use this type of entry in
iptables:
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 80 -i eth1 -j DNAT --to
10.198.0.17
P.
Johnny Hughes wrote:
>On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 21:08 +0800, Mark Quitoriano wrote:
>
>
>>i'm having a problem viewing logs on forwarded ports from the firewall
>>to another server, i forwarded mail(port 25) from the firewall to an
>>internal server. The problem is when i try to view the logs it just
>>shows the firewall ip as the sender and not the original sender.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>In reality, the firewall may be making the connection to the internal
>server... and not the external machine. Especially if the internal
>server is on a 192.168.x.x or 10.x.x.x network and you are connecting
>via NAT. If that is the case, the external machine is connecting to the
>firewall and the firewall is connecting to the internal server.
>
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