Yes. with DNAT in the PREROUTING chain in the nat table. ex fowarding tcp/25 connectios an the public address into 192.168.1.2 in the LAN echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward iptables -P FORWARD ACCEPT iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -s local.ip.from.theisp -p tcp --dport 25 -j DNAT --to 192.168.1.2:25 and it should be working. Hello Marc, Saturday, February 21, 2004, 9:26:20 AM, you wrote: MR> A LAN is equipped with an Internet gateway using NAT to share the one IP MR> address assigned by the ISP. The problem is to be able from Internet to MR> connect to one of the interfaces located on the LAN (which local IP MR> addresses are unknown from Internet). MR> Can netfilter help to solve such a problem ? MR> Many thanks for your help. MR> Marc. -- Best regards, Alexis mailto:alexis@xxxxxxxxxxxx