I'm trying to get port mapping working on a debian box I just set up - I'm pretty new to iptables, but I managed to get everything working except for port mapping with the netfilter howtos. What I want to do is map port 80 on the external interface (eth0) to port 80 on my internal (eth1) 192.168.0.2 ip address. So what I thought would do this is: iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 80 -j DNAT --to 192.168.0.2 iptables -I INPUT -d 192.168.0.0/32 -j ACCEPT If I understand that correctly, when the new packet comes in on port 80, first the dest address should be changed to 192.168.0.2 by the first rule, then it should hit the INPUT chain, and hit the second rule, which would accept it and send it on to be routed to my local machine. And this doesn't work. Any ideas? Here's my iptables -vL (before running the previous rules): Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT 0 packets, 0 bytes) pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination 18137 16M block all -- any any anywhere anywhere Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT 0 packets, 0 bytes) pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination 10303 5774K block all -- any any anywhere anywhere Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT 11785 packets, 990K bytes) pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination Chain block (2 references) pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination 26723 21M ACCEPT all -- any any anywhere anywhere state RELATED,ESTABLISHED 1375 291K ACCEPT all -- !eth0 any anywhere anywhere state NEW 342 114K DROP all -- any any anywhere anywhere and iptables -vL -t nat: Chain PREROUTING (policy ACCEPT 798 packets, 142K bytes) pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination Chain POSTROUTING (policy ACCEPT 0 packets, 0 bytes) pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination 435 21613 MASQUERADE all -- any eth0 anywhere anywhere Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT 37 packets, 2379 bytes) pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination Thanks Matt