On Tuesday 17 February 2004 7:29 pm, Ben Goedeke wrote: > To make the move as painless as possible for the users I want to keep > the DNAT rules for a while (and point them to the new IP of the mail > servers). > > Now for my question: Do I need to add an SNAT rule in POSTROUTING to No. > handle responses from the mail servers or is it enough to have the DNAT > rules in PREROUTING? Yes. > And if I indeed need an SNAT rule how can I > possibly distinguish packets that belong to connections that were DNATed > when they came in and those that weren't and had the right destination > IP all along? No problem (see above). Regards, Antony. -- What makes you think I know what I'm talking about? I just have more O'Reilly books than most people. Please reply to the list; please don't CC me.