On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 22:10, Tom Fischer wrote: > Hi, > > i have a problem with DNAT. We have to move some services for a few days > on another machine. So we want do DNAT on incoming Packets. I set > > iptables -A PREROUTING -t nat -s 0/0 -d xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx -p tcp --dport > 9000-j DNAT --to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx since you didn't provide your rules, i'm gonna haveta ask a really stupid question... did you execute that command with the old DNAT rule in place? if so--the new rule got appended to the end of the PREROUTING chain of the nat table, after the old rule; therefore, will never get matched. it would be helpful for us list-types to see the output of: iptables -t nat -vnL another thought--NAT happens first (PREROUTING), then filter rules. you will need to edit your filter rule to allow traffic to "newserver's" actual IP instead of "oldserver's" actual IP. -j -- Jason Opperisano <opie@xxxxxxxxxxx>