On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 05:31:54PM +0100, Greg Cope wrote: > Hi all, > > I have an iptables firewall that has 3 ethernet cards, > eth0(Red/internet) , eth1 (DMZ), eth2 (lan) > > eth0 has a few alias; > > eth0 (217.154.55.249) gateway > eth0:1 (217.154.55.250) for the mail server - an A record for mail.e-dba.net > eth0:2 (217.154.55.253) for a webserver > eth0:3 (217.154.55.245) another alias for a host on the DMZ > > When sending trafic from this firewall host or any host behind it the > trafic leaves from eth0 (217.154.55.249). > > The firewalls default gateway router is an ADLS ethernet modem on 217.154.55.241 > > However mail (SMTP) trafic goes in via 217.154.55.250, and I would > like it to go out via 217.154.55.250 as this has the correct > (mail.e-dba.net) PTR records. <--snip crazy routing stuff--> sounds like you want 1-to-1 NAT for the mail server, which takes 2 NAT rules (one for connections initiated *to* the mailserver, and one for connections initiated *from* the mailserver): iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -d 217.154.55.250 \ -j DNAT --to-destination $MAILSRV_PRIV_IP iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -s $MAILSRV_PRIV_IP \ -j SNAT --to-source 217.154.55.250 sounds like you already have the 1st rule in place. make sure the 2nd rule comes *before* any outbound SNAT/MASQ rule that is less specific. -j -- "Dennis Miller: I don't want to go on a rant, here, but America's foreign policy makes about as much sense as Beowulf having sex with Robert Fulton at the first battle of Antietam. I mean when a neo-conservative defenestrates it's like Raskolnikov filibuster deoxymonohydroxinate... Peter: What the hell does rant mean?" --Family Guy