first of all sorry for my level of english is very very bad i know, i'am working on that... here's my question... if i do something like this, could work? gate/home/admin -> iptables -t nat -N mellon gate/home/admin ->iptables -t nat -A mellon -p tcp -j DNAT --to-destination 192.168.9.8:20 i want to put all my DNAT rules and my fowarding rules to my server area in one rule only. can i do this? -- Atte. Ramirez Angeloni Juan Pablo