Hi Amitsharma, I'm sorry I have been away for a while. I fixed up the arp problem somehow I think, and I have been trying the iptables rule that you suggested.

I'll draw the connection again just to refresh our memory since it's been a while now.

PC1-eth0 -----> PC2-eth0 ---
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
PC1-eth1 <----- PC2-eth1 <--

At PC2, I used the following iptables rules that you suggested:

#iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p udp -d PC2-eth0-ip -j DNAT --to-destination PC1-eth1-ip
#iptables -A OUTPUT -p udp -o eth0 -j DROP

It still didnt work. Then, I looked at your tutorial and added the following rule (I specified no gateway):

#iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -p udp -d PC1-eth1-ip -j SNAT --to-source PC2-eth1-ip

I think the connection works now. With a packet capture program, I can now capture packets at PC1 however the packets destinations are still listed as PC2-eth0-ip, although they are captured at PC1.

What do you think? Is there any way to do a check at PC1-eth1 if it received any packet from PC2-eth1?

Thank you very much for your help.

Never mind, I did further tests and the network should be working. Thank you very much amitsharma_26, couldn't have done this without you. Cheers.

hey listen dj;
sorry i was away for the evening.

Listen can you change the protocol & use ftp instead of udp(for the test purpose only) ? As i cannot generate udp packets on ma part.. & hence i am asking you to switch over to ftp protocol; so now you can #ftp PC2-eth0-ip from your pc1 box & rest would remain same.

Yup i think it works with ftp as well. Cheers. Thanks so so much.