Dawn You need to make sure routing table works and ip_forward set to 1. iptables control what packets to forward and what packets not to forward. Regards, philip Carol Anne Ogdin wrote: > >i wonder iptables can help me set my Computer B to forward packets to > >computer A. > >is that possible? > That's not iptable's job. You need a router. Read the documenation for > the "ip" command on your Linux system. All you need is a simple route on > computer B that forwards to C...and, of course, routes for traffic from C > back to A, etc., and to set the appropriate "ip_forward" value to 1. > > --Carol Anne > > Carol Anne Ogdin http://www.net-working.com 530/295-3657 > > Deep Woods Technology, Inc. http://www.deepwoods.com CAOgdin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Leveraging technology to > restore the soul of the > organization >