Max Gribov wrote: > > i was playing around with ipchains and ipmasqadm to forward all traffic coming > on my port 80 to www.yahoo.com port 80... i did what is specified below > > #!/bin/bash > > LS=your.external.firewall.ip > > HTTPD=your.rfc1918.internal.ip > > ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L $LS http -R $HTTPD http > > ipchains -I forward -p tcp -s $HTTPD http -j MASQ > > but it didnt work. if i tried to connect to my machine's ip addr, i still ended > up on my machine's httpd. what could i be doing wrong? Please show us the output of # ipchains -L|grep http and # ipmasqadm portfw -l|grep http Maybe you should try to shutdown your httpd listening on port 80; at least it makes no sense to have it active if you redirect away. -cdr - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu