On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 19:42, David Williamson wrote: > > When a machine behind the router was > going to serve as a, for example, game server (like Unreal Tournament > 2004), the only way I could get it to work was to put that particular IP > on the DMZ, which, I gather, meant that it looked like it was right on > the net, unprotected, unrouted, unmasqed, et cetera. > > Since I'm trying to understand what the Linksys box did and give the new > router box the same abilities, it would help if I knew what the heck > that feature was really called, and/or how to implement that in > iptables. Check out the docs located here: http://www.netfilter.org/documentation/index.html#documentation-howto and do some reading on SNAT (rewrites source IP address) and DNAT (rewrites destination IP address). This will mimic the feature you describe above. HTH, Chris
