It can that this patch of the last week help you: http://patchwork.netfilter.org/netfilter-devel/patch.pl?id=2859 It will be necessary to hope to that stable kernel appears. Greetings. On 9/16/05, John A. Sullivan III <jsullivan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > We have encountered an unusual situation where NetBIOS datagram packets > (138/udp) are being passed through an IPSec tunnel on an iptables > firewall but they are also being NATted by the same firewall. It > appears there is IP information embedded in the NetBIOS header. Thus > NAT causes this protocol to break because the reply packets are sent to > the original IP address in the NetBIOS header rather than the NAT IP > address in the IP header. > > I believe Cisco does have a NAT helper for NetBIOS but I have not seen > anything for iptables. Is there such a helper? Is there anyway for an > iptables firewall to NAT NetBIOS datagram packets? Thanks - John > -- > John A. Sullivan III > Open Source Development Corporation > +1 207-985-7880 > jsullivan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > If you would like to participate in the development of an open source > enterprise class network security management system, please visit > http://iscs.sourceforge.net > > >