Sorry for the long descritpion of the problem, I'd like to know If I misunderstand something or if I meet an intrinsic limit of my setup. 217.58.51.162 HDSL eth1 - SRV_XP: 192.168.254.10 eth0: 192.168.254.1 -----+------------------+------- 81.121.243.250 ADSL eth3 - I want to allow incoming pptp request (port 1723) to be forwarded to srv_xp (.10) both coming from ADSL & HDSL. From HDSL everything works (note rule with prio 38) ADSL does not. From ADSL I can reach SRV_XP only if I eliminate rule 38, but at that moment I cannot enter from HDSL... My setup + ip tables hdsl & adsl for the 2 dsl lines, 0: from all lookup local 30: from all fwmark 3 lookup hdsl 38: from 192.168.254.10 lookup hdsl <<== NOTE this 40: from 217.58.51.160/27 lookup hdsl 41: from 81.121.243.248/30 lookup adsl 52: from all iif eth0 lookup adsl 53: from all iif eth2 lookup adsl 32766: from all lookup main 32767: from all lookup default + hdsl table has default gw to HDSL line + adsl table has default gw to ADSL line + DNAT & SNAT occurring from both dsl lines Chain PREROUTING DNAT tcp 0.0.0.0/0 81.121.243.250 tcp dpt:1723 to:192.168.254.10 DNAT tcp 0.0.0.0/0 217.58.51.162 tcp dpt:1723 to:192.168.254.10 Chain POSTROUTING SNAT all -- * eth1 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 to:217.58.51.162 SNAT all -- * eth3 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 to:81.121.243.250 SNAT tcp -- * eth0 0.0.0.0/0 192.168.254.10 tcp dpt:1723 to:192.168.254.1 [mangling occurs only on ports 3085, 5405, 5421 so that rule 30 (fwmark) does nothing here. ] I guess the problem is the routing table of the packet coming back from SRV_XP: the ack packet does take a routing table different from the 1^ incoming packet. I added SNAT thinking to avoid asymmetric routing (income via adsl, out via hdsl), but I'm not sure it works this way. What happens to an ACK package? does the kernel use the routing table it arrived with or recompute it after it realize it is RELATED to a connection already open? Is this a question for this list or for netfilter list? ;-) Thanks for any hint for a clean solution. sandro *:-) -- Sandro Dentella *:-) e-mail: sandro@xxxxxxxx http://www.tksql.org TkSQL Home page - My GPL work _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/