>Subject: Transparent proxy where source IP address remains unchanged -- > possible? Check Balabit TPROXY. To retain the source address however, you need to patch the application that initiates the second part. In your case, the sshd on faketarget. N.B.: Why do you want to poke on _ssh_ anyway? Jan Engelhardt -- | Alphagate Systems, http://alphagate.hopto.org/