On Saturday 06 March 2004 4:11 am, Hitesh Ballani wrote: > I want to process incoming packets to one of my addresses and my ports to > be forwarded to some other destination .. the complication arises due to > the fact that the destination will be determined dynamically i.e based on > the port on which the packet arrived, I need to communicate with some other > machine using udp and determine the destination to which this is to be > forwarded, this destination also needs to be cached so that any future > packets on this port can directly be sent to the destination... You might want to look into the way Linux Virtual Server works - this sounds something like what that does. http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org Antony -- Documentation is like sex. When it's good, it's very very good. When it's bad, it's still better than nothing. Please reply to the list; please don't CC me.