> I'm doing port forwarding to a server that runs jabber and everything > works fine, I did notice that if I bring up a jabber client on the > firewall itself I do not get connected. While this isn't really > needed... I don't totally understand why it doesn't work. Being > inquisitive... well I just gots to know why! Can anyone shed some > light? > > My rules for the jabber port forward are: > > iptables -A FORWARD > -i $ExIF -d $JabIP -p tcp --dport $JabPort > -j ACCEPT > iptables -A PREROUTING > -t nat -d $ExIP -p tcp --dport $JabPort > -j DNAT --to-destination $JabIP > iptables -A POSTROUTING > -t nat -d $JabIP -p tcp --dport $JabPort > -j SNAT --to-source $InIP I'm new at this, but shouldn't you have INPUT and OUTPUT rules if you want to run something on the firewall? Maybe not, since I've just mastered FORWARD, INPUT and OUTPUT and I haven't figured out where PREROUTING and POSTROUTING come in so maybe you're counting on them to do the job.
