yeah the DHCRELAY is running on the firewall... below is how I am setting up these rules. iptables -N lan1-in iptables -N ext-int-in iptables -N lan2-in iptables -N lan1-lan2-fwd iptables -N lan2-lan1-fwd iptables -N ext-int-fwd iptables -N lan1-ext-fwd iptables -N lan2-ext-fwd iptables -N lan1-lan2 iptables -A INPUT -i eth1 -j lan1-in iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -j ext-int-in iptables -A INPUT -i eth2 -j lan2-in iptables -A FORWARD -i eth1 -o eth2 -j lan1-lan2-fwd iptables -A FORWARD -i eth2 -o eth2 -j lan2-lan1-fwd iptables -A FORWARD -i eth0 -j ext-int-fwd iptables -A FORWARD -i eth1 -j lan1-ext-fwd iptables -A FORWARD -i eth2 -j lan2-ext-fwd iptables -A OUTPUT -o eth2 -j lan1-lan2 iptables -A OUTPUT -o eth0 -j ACCEPT iptables -A OUTPUT -s 192.168.1.0/24 -j ACCEPT iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp -d x.x.x.x (ISP Assigned IP) -j ACCEPT iptables -A ext-int-fwd -i eth0 -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT iptables -A ext-int-fwd -i eth0 -j DROP iptables -A ext-int-in -i eth0 -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT iptables -A ext-int-in -i eth0 -j DROP iptables -A lan1-ext-fwd -i eth1 -m state --state NEW,RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT iptables -A lan1-ext-fwd -i eth1 -j DROP iptables -A lan1-in -i eth1 -s 192.168.1.0/24 -j ACCEPT iptables -A lan1-in -i eth1 -j DROP iptables -A lan1-lan2 -p udp -o eth2 --dport 68 -j ACCEPT iptables -A lan1-lan2 -o eth2 -d 192.168.2.0/24 -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT iptables -A lan1-lan2 -j DROP iptables -A lan1-lan2-fwd -o eth2 -d 192.168.2.0/24 -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT iptables -A lan1-lan2-fwd -o eth2 -j DROP iptables -A lan2-ext-fwd -i eth2 -m state --state NEW,RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT iptables -A lan2-ext-fwd -i eth2 -j DROP iptables -A lan2-in -i eth2 -p udp --dport 67 -j ACCEPT iptables -A lan2-in -i eth2 -s 192.168.2.0/24 -j ACCEPT iptables -A lan2-in -i eth2 -j DROP iptables -A lan2-lan1-fwd -i eth2 -o eth1 -j ACCEPT iptables -A lan2-lan1-fwd -i eth2 -o eth1 -j DROP iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -s 192.168.0.0/16 -j MASQUERADE echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward ----- Original Message ----- From: "Antony Stone" <Antony@Soft-Solutions.co.uk> To: <netfilter@lists.netfilter.org> Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 3:49 AM Subject: Re: DHCRELAY through IPTABLES Firewall > On Sunday 27 October 2002 8:58 am, bigman@monster-solutions.net wrote: > > > I am running DHCRELAY as below > > > > dhcrelay -i eth2 192.168.1.70 > > > > 192.168.1.70 DHCP Server (W2K) > > LAN1 192.168.1.0 > > LAN2 192.168.2.0 > > > > Here is my routing tables > > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use > > Iface > > 192.168.2.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 > > eth2 192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 > > 0 eth1 x.x.x.x (ISP Subnet) * 255.255.252.0 U 0 > > 0 0 eth0 > > 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo > > default x.x.x.x (ISP Assigned IP) 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 > > 0 eth0 > > Okay, that all looks sensible. By the way, just thought I'd check - I > assume you are running dhcrelay on the firewall machine ? > > > Here are my Netfilter settings > > Please post the iptables commands used to set up your ruleset. > > You sent the ouput of iptables -L which doesn't show all the information we > need: even the verbose version iptables -L -v is not as informative as the > original commands. Thanks, > > Antony. > > -- > > With thanks to God, > For all that's come before, > For all that will come after, > But most of all, for this bit right here now. >