Hi all, i have the following situation: nntp clients -- [internet] --+-- server1:119 | +-> server2:119 we manage the server1. It is a server with more services (web, ftp, pop3, ...). The new service will be nntp(119) but we dont want to install there a news SW. We only need forward all nntp/news traffic to another server - server2. server2 is not our server, but this server accept all the traffic from source IP address of server1. There is not possible to accept directly the traffic from all clients becouse they dont have the same address like server1 of course. What we need is to configure a server1 to accept all connections from clients to port 119(news) and forward it to destination server2 but with source address of server1. Note that server1 have only one NIC interface. I have this on the server1 and it dont work: /sbin/iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth0+ --protocol tcp --destination-port 119 -j DNAT --to-destination server2:119 iptables -L -n -v -t nat Chain PREROUTING (policy ACCEPT 118K packets, 6236K bytes) pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination 10 600 DNAT tcp -- eth0+ * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 tcp dpt:119 to:server2:119 Chain POSTROUTING (policy ACCEPT 46411 packets, 3197K bytes) pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT 46411 packets, 3197K bytes) pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination thank you for help kolisko -- --- Michal Kolesár kolisko@penguin.cz http://kolisko.penguin.cz +420.777.225.297 Don't send me any attachment in Micro$oft (.DOC, .PPT) format please Read http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html Preferable attachments: .PDF, .HTML, .TXT Thanx for adding this text to Your signature