Hi, I'm not currently part of the mailing list so please carbon me on any replies. The current configuration is: Firewall (2 interfaces): eth0: a.b.c.d eth0:1 a.b.c.e ( e = d+1 ... I got a small netblock of about 5 ip's) eth1: 192.168.0.1 Internal Web Server (1 interface): eth0: 192.168.0.2 a.b.c.d and a.b.c.e is a public IP address. Current Rules I'm useing are this: iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j SNAT --to-source a.b.c.d iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -d a.b.c.e -p tcp --dport 1000 -j DNAT --to-destination 192.168.0.2 iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -d a.b.c.e -p tcp --dport 80 -j DNAT --to-destination 192.168.0.2 Everything looks like it's fine and dandy, from the outside of eth0 everything is fine. I can connect to both port 1000 and port 80 on eth0:1 from any outside source. I have another internal machine on 192.168.0.3. The problem I am currntly haveing is that the 192.168.0.3 machine cannot connect to the forwarded ports on eth0:1 (a.b.c.e) interface, ports 1000 and 80. All I seem to get is a "Connection Refused" unless I add the rule: iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth1 -d a.b.c.e -p tcp --dport 80 -j DNAT --to-destination 192.168.0.2 In which case I get a hung connection on "SYN_SENT" with incomming connection to the 192.168.0.2 machine. any help would greatly be appreciated. Thanks in advance, Justin Booth jbooth@xxxxxxxxxx