Hey, i have a vpn established and working via a Linux (Debian) Box and a Windows with openvpn. The tap devices have the following ips: linux 192.168.200.201 windows 192.168.200.202 My intern network address at linux net is 192.168.1.0/24 and under windows it's 192.168.0.0/24 now my question: I want to forward the ports 2005 2006 7064 from the Linux net into the Windows net ( enough when the packets appear at the vpn endpoint in Windows net) I get at the Linux VPN box the packets via eth0 these packets are send to 255.255.255.255:2005 for example. Now I want them to go into the tap0 dev and appear at the windows box. I tried following rules for iptable at the linux box: iptables -A INPUT -i tap0 -j ACCEPT iptables -A OUTPUT -o tap0 -j ACCEPT iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p udp -i eth0 --dport 2005 -j DNAT --to 192.168.200.202:2005 iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -i eth0 --dport 2005 -j DNAT --to 192.168.200.202:2005 iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p udp -i eth0 --dport 2006 -j DNAT --to 192.168.200.202:2006 iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -i eth0 --dport 2006 -j DNAT --to 192.168.200.202:2006 iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p udp -i eth0 --dport 7064 -j DNAT --to 192.168.200.202:7064 iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -i eth0 --dport 7064 -j DNAT --to 192.168.200.202:7064 iptables -A FORWARD -p udp -i eth0 --dport 2005 -j ACCEPT iptables -A FORWARD -p tcp -i eth0 --dport 2005 -j ACCEPT iptables -A FORWARD -p udp -i eth0 --dport 2006 -j ACCEPT iptables -A FORWARD -p tcp -i eth0 --dport 2006 -j ACCEPT iptables -A FORWARD -p udp -i eth0 --dport 7064 -j ACCEPT iptables -A FORWARD -p tcp -i eth0 --dport 7064 -j ACCEPT Could anyone say why this is not working? I looked at the tap0 dev for outgoing packets with "iptraf -i tap0 -u". But there are nor outgoing neither incoming packets :( Ciao Thilo