On Wed, January 12, 2005 12:09 pm, Roderik van Heijst said: > hi there, hi > [...] > ... Nopez. Honestly, I can't understand what's making the difference .. > must be due to > different kernels, but this is user-space right .. should work the same? What do you mean by `but this is user-space' ? > I'm sorry if i sound frustrated, but i am. Against what ? 8) > > iptables -F > iptables -t nat -F > iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -i ppp0 --dport 1111 -j DNAT --to > 131.155.228.4 > iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -p tcp --dport 1111 -j MASQUERADE > iptables -L > iptables -t nat -L Quick comment : May I guess you have static external ip ? If you do, use SNAT instead of MASQUERADE. > > Now for the difference that i can spot which may have to do with this: > phex uses 2.4.20 whereas boron has 2.4.24. Shouldn't matter. > A subtle difference (at least that's what it seems to me) is that phex > preroutes things from ppp0 while boron should > do that from eth0, maybe that can be the problem? i don't see how, but > that doesn't surprise me anymore by now. That, obiviously, is a problem. The packet will never get DNAT'ed (because it doesn't match your rule) if you specified it should come from ppp0 where, in fact, it comes from eth0. > I hope any of you can bravely > come up with some sort of answer that should push me into the right > direction of solving this .. well .. i don't know what it is. Aargh! Maybe I missed something ? > > oh and happy newyear. Thanks HTH, Samuel
