On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 04:04, Serguei I. Ivantsov wrote: > Hello! > > I just interesting - whether something changes in Netfilter to support > peer-to-peer games. > How to implement the scheme described below using netfilter? > > <from the article> [ snip ] DNAT the necessary ports on the outside of your netfilter box to the host on the inside that your playing games from, and put a rule in the FORWARD chain that allows the traffic as well. example--game port is UDP 7777: iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i $EXTERNAL_IF -p udp \ -d $EXTERNAL_IP --dport 7777 -j DNAT --to-destination $CLIENT_IP iptables -A FORWARD -p udp -d $CLIENT_IP --dport 7777 -j ACCEPT adjust accordingly for you particular level of paranoia. -j -- Jason Opperisano <opie@xxxxxxxxxxx>