I am trying to port forward ssh portX to portY on same box I am listening on both ports using tcpdump. On the same machine, I telnet "localhost portX" or "portY" results: NOTHING seen by tcpdump screen . I do the same in respect to portY. I also telnet "IP_number portX or portY results: NOTHING seen by tcpdump screen. BTW, on the ssh-server side, I have portX and portY accepting connections. This is what I have come up with after some google-search. iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport portX -j DNAT --to :portY No luck, -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html