Hi again I used a trace program and there are no packets going thru, and I scan the ports and there's no 8080 open, let me show you everything again Here's my /etc/rc.d/rc.firewall ----- echo "Borrando posibles reglas anteriores..." iptables -F iptables -X echo "Habilitando politicas de negacion total de paquetes" iptables -P FORWARD DROP iptables -P INPUT DROP echo "Reglas para paquetes de entrada y salida" iptables -A INPUT -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 21 -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 25 -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 22 -j ACCEPT ##internas iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 143 -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -i lo -p tcp --dport 143 -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 3306 -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 110 -j ACCEPT #para el forward a la maquina compaq echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward iptables -A FORWARD -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT iptables -A FORWARD -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 8080 -j DNAT --to-destination 10.73.219.77:80 echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward ----- Here's my nmap scan ----- root@mail:~# nmap 10.73.219.156 Starting nmap 3.48 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2004-05-11 09:42 VET Interesting ports on mail.aeropostal.com.ve (10.73.219.156): (The 1651 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: filtered) PORT STATE SERVICE 21/tcp closed ftp 22/tcp open ssh 25/tcp open smtp 80/tcp open http 143/tcp open imap 3306/tcp open mysql ------ As we can see, there's no 8080 port. We have to remember that the interface that is nat'ed' from the internet is the same one that's forwarding packets to 10.73.219.77. Do you think that this could be the reason? should I use a second card and use it to forward packets? Here's setup, the one I wrote on the first message ----- - The linux box has only one NIC -and having a second one is not a problem- It functions as a web/mail server, and that means that I'm using 80 and 25 already. What i'd like to do is, access another internal webserver from the outside getting in using another port in the nat'ed' linux box. ------- ----------------- ---------------- router |<--->|Linux box |<---->|2nd WebServer | ------- |using web/mail | |10.73.219.77 | |10.73.219.156 | ---------------- ----------------- ------------- Thanx a lot for your time... Juan