On Monday 20 August 2007, Bertram Scharpf wrote: > Hi, > > just another question. Let my router be 192.168.7.33 with > interfaces eth0 and ppp0; then this works perfectly here: > > # iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i ppp+ -p tcp --dport 80 \ > -j DNAT --to 192.168.7.49:80 > > However, I want to request from inside my local domain the > same way. This seems to end in a drop or an infinite loop: > > # iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -d 192.168.7.33 -p tcp --dport 80 \ > -j DNAT --to 192.168.7.49:80 > > Besides that I want to know what is going wrong here, You need to 'fix' the reply traffic, by using a rule like: # iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -i eth0 -d 192.168.7.49 -p tcp --dport 80 \ -j SNAT --to 192.168.7.33 With recent kernels this can be done more elegantly by using the conntrack module: # iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -d 192.168.7.49 -m conntrack --ctorigdst \ 192.168.7.49 -j SNAT --to 192.168.7.33 I never used the latter myself due to me working with older kernels mainly. > I further would like to ask how I could debug this. tcpdump and/or wireshark is/are your best friend(s). HTH, -- Ruben