Dear Guru I do not know if here is the most apropriated place to send this. If it is not please send me some good directions. I am trying to configure a FTP server behind two consecutives packet filters: Internet <---> Filter 1 <--> Filter 2 <--> FTP SERVER At Filter 1 I have: INET_IFACE=eth1 $IPTABLES -t nat -A PREROUTING -i $INET_IFACE -p TCP -d $STATIC_IP \ --dport 21 -j DNAT --to-destination 192.168.20.2 $IPTABLES -t nat -A PREROUTING -i $INET_IFACE -p TCP -d $STATIC_IP \ --dport 20 -j DNAT --to-destination 192.168.20.2 When I launch ftp at the client I can see the following output thru inner ethernet card (Filter 1 <--> Filter 2): # tcpdump -e -p -n -i eth0 host 200.231.48.43 User level filter, protocol ALL, datagram packet socket tcpdump: listening on eth0 11:50:39.261845 0:0:0:0:0:0 0:6:5b:28:62:b2 ip 74: 200.231.48.43.1291 > 192.168.20.2.ftp: S 1376590181:1376590181(0) win 5840 <mss 1460,nop,nop,timestamp 31629423 0,nop,wscale 0> (DF) 180 packets received by filter # arp -an ? (200.231.48.97) at 00:60:1D:03:7F:41 [ether] on eth1 ? (192.168.30.2) at 00:50:DA:27:5B:41 [ether] on eth0 # route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 192.168.30.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.252 U 0 0 0 eth0 192.168.20.0 192.168.30.2 255.255.255.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 0.0.0.0 200.231.48.97 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth1 As one can also see, the destination IP address was correctly changed but the destination ethernet address is 0:0:0:0:0:0 !! I can't see this packet going out from Filter 2 to FTP server. Shoudn't this frame have the destination ethernet address 00:50:DA:27:5B:41 which is the gateway for network 192.168.20.0?? What am I missing? # uname -a Linux gateway 2.4.10 #1 Wed Sep 26 17:52:16 BRT 2001 i686 unknown Ethy H. Brito /"\ InterNexo Ltda. \ / CAMPANHA DA FITA ASCII - CONTRA MAIL HTML +55 (12) 3941-6860 X ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN - AGAINST HTML MAIL S.J.Campos - Brasil / \ _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/