Hi For the purpose of trouble shooting , one setup which I had done for redirecting port 110 to port 8110 ( same machine) . For this purpose I gave the command as iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 110 -j REDIRECT --to-port 8110 Now after this . When I do a tcpdump for port 8110 , I do not get any results , when I access port 110 Since the tcpdump results for port 8110 is not seen , what can we conclude from , Is port forwarding happening here ? Thanks Joseph John ___________________________________________________________ Try the all-new Yahoo! Mail. "The New Version is radically easier to use" ? The Wall Street Journal http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html