>Hello, > >I have a new challenge of trying to map some IP's to a single IP but >with a static port. Here is a sample. You can't do that (at least at the same time). This is because: What if the client-in-the-office makes two requests at the same time to the same service? (Classic example: SMB file sharing) Then you would have two distinct packets having the same single-IP-with-static-port on the source side, and IP-PORT on the destination side, e.g. client:1024 -> fileserver:137 client:1025 -> fileserver:137 gets mapped to router:1999 -> fileserver:137 router:1999 -> fileserver:137 and as you know, the uniqueness of a TCP connection is defined by the uniqueness of the tuple (srcip,srcport,dstip,dstport) >Each workstation has a TCP processing running on a fixed port. For all >intents and purposes let's say it's SMTP. What I need to do, using the >single static IP address is map out a single port for each server behind >it. > >So, given 10.99.0.x it we want something like this > >10.99.0.1:25 = 199.199.80.41:30001 >10.99.0.2:25 = 199.199.80.41:30002 >... >10.99.0.250:25 = 199.199.80.41:30250 > >Is there a simple way to do this? Currently we have a pre/post routing >line per entry. Is there a better way? Maybe I did not quite understand, but my first guess is -see above-. For everything else, if it's only one connection at the same time, -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s 10.99.0.1 -p tcp --sport 25 -j SNAT --to-source 199.199.80.41:30001 Jan Engelhardt -- | Gesellschaft fuer Wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung Goettingen, | Am Fassberg, 37077 Goettingen, www.gwdg.de