Excuse me form reposting the quesiton, but I didn't find any solution. Any suggestion is welcome Hi, I'm running a Debian 2.2r2 on a university server with 3 public ip o(1.1.1.1 2.2.2.2 and 3.3.3.3 on one ethernet card (but soon we will have three cards). There's a tunnel (implemented with vtund on a tun interface with local address 192.168.1.10 and remote 192.168.1.20) from this server to another server without public ip and behind a router. I wanted to make the second server visible to the world, so I reserved one of the public addresses (say 2.2.2.2) for the job and I made an ipmasqadm portfw rule to redirect incoming packets on 1.1.1.1 port 80 to the remote address of the tunnel interface (192.168.1.20) on the same port. Things are running. Packets are redirected from the public address to the private one and then, via tun interface, reach the "private server". *BUT* packets are arriving un-masquearded, that's to say with the address of the host that requested the connection. So to get things working I have to set the public server as default route on the masqueraded one, the thing it's not so good for me, 'cause the masqueraded server act as gateway for a sub-net and I don't want all the traffic being routed on the tunnel interface via the public server. I think that the right way is to get packets being masqueraded from the public server with it's tunnel address, so that the masqueraded server will know where to send back packets. Any suggestion is really welcome. As better explain than my english I add here some rules and info. HOST A HOST B ----------- -------------- I | | | | N eth0 tun1 tun1 eth0 T ---1.1.1.1 192.168.1.10 --- 192.168.1.20 172.20.32.1 --- GATEWAY E eth0:1 R ---2.2.2.2 N E T HOST A #masq what is coming from HOST B ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.1.20/32 -d 0.0.0.0/0 -j MASQ #masq what goes to HOST B #ipchains -A forward -s 0.0.0.0/0 -d 192.168.1.20/32 -l -j MASQ #redirect ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L 1.1.1.1 80 -R 192.168.1.20 80 HOST B #172.16.32.1 #ROUTER/GATEWAY OF THE LAB #how to reach the public end of the tunnel route add -host 2.2.2.2 gw 172.16.32.1 Thanks a lot, gianpaolo -- Un dottore distratto alla paziente: "E' stata a teatro ieri sera?". "No, sono andata a letto presto". "E c'era molta gente?". -- Da it.hobby.umorismo