hi,

i am probably missing something really stupid but...

i have just added an additional ip address to my external interface ( yes my isp knows about the ip address and i have had another machine on it before ).

my system has assiged the interface name eth0 : 0

( the spaces are to prevent a smiley poping up )

for some reason, the port forwarding is not working at all on any virtual interface i used the following line to add in the port forwarding:
( i have changed the external ip address

now the above line works great on the default external ip address ( 44.44.44.41 ) but fails on the additional addresses. i have set this up before but cannot remember how, or what was changed at the time.
and it would be good to have it all written down too


does anyone have any ideas as to what is wrong?

i have only the basic stuff in my iptables ( set up for NAT )

Don't create a virtual interface just bind additional address to the NIC with
ip add addr add <ip> dev <device>;
Are you SNAT the connection on the way out?
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -p tcp -s 192.168.0.201 -J SNAT --to-source 44.44.44.46
or masquearing the connection is OK too
Your DNAT rule should be
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -d 44.44.44.46 --dport 8080 -j DNAT --to-destination 192.168.0.201:80
Not
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -i 44.44.44.46 --dport 8080 -j DNAT --to-destination 192.168.0.201:80
The -i is interface option.