Hello folks: This may have been discussed many times before but I have not been able to find it. I have also not been able to resolve it myself so I am asking here with hope that someone can straighten me out. I am using ip to do multisource policy routing or two connections to the internet. I have a linksys wrt54gs route which connects two machines by wire through the switch and three computers through wireless. For the most part his portion of the set-up works fine. One of the boxes attached to the router by 10base-t also has a second interface card which attaches to an adsl modem using pppoe. My problem is on that second machine. I cannot figure out how to forward packets by incoming or destination port to the first machine for some services which it handles such as mail/dns/ftp.... I have read through quite a few docs such as Matt Marsh''s policy routing and the lartc how-to on nat''ing and so forth. After reading these I think I understand what is going on until I try to do it myself and then I either get errors or it just doesn''t work. I have tried using iptables and route/rule nat with no luck so far. It seems to me this should be a FAQ but nothing seems to quite match. I will try to draw how I invision the lay-out of the network but apologize because I''m a blink and am not sure I can get the drawing just right. internet internet | | wrt54gs dsl-mdm / \ / host-a host-b 2 nics I am not sure whether to put here what I have tried and hope someone can point out my mistakes or just hope someone will give me a nice little script! ''grin'' Okay, okay, here are the iptables lines I tried first: iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i ppp0 -p tcp --dport 25 -j DNAT --to 10.10.10.10 iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -p tcp --dport 25 -j MASQUERADE I have tried both eth0 and ppp0 in the -o flag above. I have also tried adding ppp0 with the ip addr add 10.10.10.10/32 dev ppp0 table 1 without much affect. Does it sound like I''m confused? I also tried using the fwmark with ip rule but run up against a brick wall which appears to be that one cannot do ip route add nat 69.63.33.227/32 via 10.10.10.10/32 table natit. It seems that tables are not aloud in the route nat or something. I''m also not quite sure how the nat 0 works in the ip rule statement so yes I am confused in a big way! I will include my policy route script below so you can see the bit I do have working. Any help or pointers will certainly be appreciated. Kirk #!/bin/bash IF1=eth0 IP1=10.10.10.15 P1=10.10.10.1 P1_NET=10.10.10.0 IF2=ppp0 IP2=69.63.33.227 P2=209.183.132.10 P2_NET=69.0.0.0 ip route add $P1_NET dev $IF1 src $IP1 table T1 ip route add default via $P1 table T1 ip route add $P2_NET dev $IF2 table T1 ip route add 127.0.0.0/8 dev lo table T1 ip route add $P2_NET dev $IF2 src $IP2 table T2 ip route add default via $P2 table T2 ip route add $P1_NET dev $IF1 table T2 ip route add 127.0.0.0/8 dev lo table T2 #ip route append $P1_NET dev $IF1 src $IP1 #ip route append $P2_NET dev $IF2 src $IP2 #ip route append default via $P1 ip rule add from $IP1 table T1 ip rule add from $IP2 table T2 ip route add default scope global nexthop via $P1 dev $IF1 weight 1 \ nexthop via $P2 dev $IF2 weight 1 -- Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility e-mail: kirk@braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario phone: (519) 661-3061