On Jan 7 2007 23:14, Juan Pablo Ramirez wrote: > > 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 You still need to call into mellon, otherwise, this alone, yes. > i want to put all my DNAT rules and my fowarding rules to my server > area in one rule only. > can i do this? Try. (Since I can't figure out from your question how you intend to do _that_.) -`J' --