hi I am planning to implement setup like below users (all r in public ip) ------> pvt ip linux auth server (nated with pub ip in pix)---- pix- bbrouter-- Internet cache server is lying in the same auth server segment we are planing to cache all the port 80 traffic so we decided to put cache enginee(( ip spoof enabled) on different machine my question is when ever any dport 80 request come and hit in auth server. i want to redirect into cache box without nating source ip. bcs if we change the the source ip to cache enginee. all the request will be generated by cache enginee. i don't want it. i want to simulate port 80 redirection in L4 switch in iptables. when any port 80 come and hit the auth box just put into the the cache enginee. The below option will redirect into the same machine /sbin/iptables -t nat -I PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-port 8080 the below option will change the destation ip and dport iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 80 -j DNAT --to-destination 192.168.1:8080 Any suggestion welcome. Regards Tmurugavelu -- "Success comes to the person who does today"