Hi, I''m running a Debian 2.2r2 on a university server with 3 public ip on one ethernet card (but soon we will have three cards). There''s a tunnel (implemented with vtund on a tun interface with local address 192.168.1.10 and remote 192.168.1.20) from this server to another server without public ip and behind a router. I wanted to make the second server visible to the world, so I reserver one of the three ip public address (say 111.111.111.111, 111.111.111.112 and 111.111.111.113) for the job and I made an ipmasqadm portfw rule to redirect incoming packets on 111.111.111.111 port 80 to the remote address of the tunnel interface (192.168.1.20) Things are running. Packets are redirected from the public address to the private one and then , via tun interface, reach the "private server". BUT packets are arriving un-masquearded, that''s to say with the address of the host that requested the connection. So to get things working I have to set as default route for I have ot set the public server as default route on the masqueraded one, the thing it''s not so good for me, ''cause the masqueraded server act as gateway for a sub-net and I don''t want all the traffic being routed on the tunnel interface. I think that the right way is to get packets being masqueraded from the public server with it''s tunnel address, so that the masqueraded server will know where to send back packets. Any suggestion is really welcome. As better explain than my english I add here some rules and info. HOST A HOST B -------- -------- eth0 tun1 tun1 eth0 111.111.111.111 192.168.1.10 192.168.1.20 172.20.32.1 eth0:1 111.111.111.112 HOST A #masq what is coming from HOST B ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.1.20/32 -d 0.0.0.0/0 -j MASQ #masq what goes to HOST B #ipchains -A forward -s 0.0.0.0/0 -d 192.168.1.20/32 -l -j MASQ #redirect ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L 111.111.111.111 80 -R 192.168.1.20 80 HOST B #172.16.32.1 #ROUTER/GATEWAY OF THE LAB #how to reach the public end of the tunnel route add -host 111.111.111.112 gw 172.16.32.1 Thanks, gianpaolo -- gianpaolo racca gianpaolo@preciso.net http://www.preciso.net