Hi.... im trying to forward the conecction to mail services like smtp( port 25) from one pc to another, im using: _mail_services=25,110,143,995,993 _mailserver=192.168.0.3 iptables -t mangle -A ftolocal -p tcp -m multiport --destination-ports $_mail_services -j MARK --set-mark 1 iptables -t nat -A ftolocal -p tcp -m multiport --destination-ports $_mail_services -j DNAT --to-destination 192.168.0.3 where ftolocal its a chain name for mangle and nat... the ip addres source it's 192.168.0.5 and i want to send localhost connections to 192.168.0.3... when i use the lines above i can: telnet 192.168.0.5 25 and it works... giving me: Trying 192.168.0.5... Connected to beta.gps.com.co (192.168.0.5). Escape character is '^]'. 220 alpha.gps.com.co ESMTP Postfix But when i use: telnet localhost 25 or telnet 127.0.0.1 25 tha must be equal i get.. Trying 127.0.0.1... and statys there forever..... without using the lines above i just get: [root@beta beta]# telnet localhost 25 Trying 127.0.0.1... telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused [root@beta beta]# telnet 192.168.0.5 25 Trying 192.168.0.5... telnet: connect to address 192.168.0.5: Connection refused telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused What i do wrong.... why i cannot use localhost to connect.... can someone give me a hand.... Lot of Thanks.. Alan Jairo Acosta -- 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
