Post yur iptables ruleset... and y using mangle instead of nat anything special ???? Regards, Joel n.solanki Systems Administrator D2V ISP PVT LTD On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 16:12, Murugavel Thiruvengadam wrote: > we have few clients connected in LInux firewall > > switch ---- firewall--------internet > | | | > 200pcs | pvtip pubip > > all -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 > SMANG --to-ip <PUBLIC IP> > > -A FORDNS -j SMANG --to-ip PUBLIC Ip > > while sending a request to DNS we are using (mangle.) client's source > port . the same port we are using to send a request to dns. while > coming back. assume that 3 person used the same port. DNS return > traffice not going to respective client. can anyone please advise. > > it was working fine with nat. we are right now using mangle > > Regards > TM >