Mr Ritter zei: > I have some rules in the PREROUTING of the nat table that perform a DNAT > however, on a very consistent basis the rules doesn't get applied and > the packet ends up in the filter table without the destination modified. > 95% of the time it works, 5% it doesn't. I can't put a finger on whats > causing it, or see anything in particular about the packets that fail to > DNAT. Any suggestions on how to resolve this? You can start by posting your ruleset, please show us the output from iptables-save. Also, you failed to mention if those packets that don't get DNATted are really random or creating a new connection. HTH, M4