What I am trying to do is forward port 1944 requests that come to my machine to another machine, that isnt in my network (I would assume it works about the same for both tho, if at all) And here is why. I am trying to use my server for a webhosting end of a deal, while the other person hosts the other end on port 1944.. which if helps..is a MUSH server.

iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 1944 -i eth0 -j DNAT --to <destination>:1944

Happened to be something that I found somewhere.. but saddly it didnt work for some reason, at least from inside my network.

So, any other ideas?..hehe thanks

If your default policy for IPTABLES -P FORWARD is DROP then you are going to need to add a rule that will accept them

before you run that IPTABLES line to forward that port in your nat table, you want to run this line

iptables -A FORWARD -p tcp -i eth0 --dport 1944 -j ACCEPT

That will first tell your iptables to accept forwarding requests for packets that come in on port 1944. If your default policy is drop, they are being dropped before your nat table has a chance to get them.

That doesnt appear to work..hmm

On another note... it now works... I screwed up some stuff and had to wipe clean stuff.. and redo other things.. but it now works.. and thanks you helped ALOT and saved me hours of "how can I do that!" work