Internal network connecting to external IP address
 

hi, i have a small network setup with two computers running Fedora Core 5, one is my home gateway and the other one my workstation, i've setup NAT and MASQUERADE, so i can access the internet through the gateway and everything is working fine, but now im running some services in my workstation and had to setup port forwarding so i could reach them from outside, it works good but i cant access those same services from the internal network.

Can someone tell me how can i allow the internal network to access the public IP address of gateway and be forward back the same way as external connections are?


thanks in advance,

kamafeu

Sounds like you need to add a rule to allow all LAN hosts to access your port. For example, to allow LAN hosts access to your web server port 80:

iptables -A INPUT -s $LAN -d $NIC1 --dport 80 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A OUTPUT -s $NIC1 --sport 80 -d $LAN -j ACCEPT

thx for the reply, i managed to do what i wanted by using the /etc/hosts file.