port forwarding using IPTABLE ...( Help)

ad2005 · 03-14-2006, 05:20 AM

Hi everybod,

i have redhat 9, all my internet clinets connected to my server via port 10009 and some other ports , and i need to forword all clinets connected to port 10009 only to anther INTERNET ip address PORT 3999

is there any iptable rule can do this ?

waitting for reply
Thank you

Regards
AD

amitsharma_26 · 03-14-2006, 05:31 AM

IPTABLES -t nat -A PREROUTING -d $YOUR-SERVER-IP -p tcp --dport 10009 -j DNAT --to-destination $YOUR-INTERNET-IP-ADDRESS:3999

ad2005 · 03-14-2006, 05:35 AM

Thank you amitsharma_26 for your kind reply

i will test it ..

Regards
AD

ad2005 · 03-14-2006, 07:44 AM

not working withe me

1) frist its dos not accepet the other server DNS ip address
the iptable give me Bad IP address `.no'
2) when i channge it to ip address numbers its accepted work but no connection happen fot both servers.

this the line i used

iptable -t nat -A PREROUTING -d $127.0.0.1 -p tcp --dport 10009 -j DNAT --to-destination $193.546.46.116:3999

do i have to put this in my router maby it solve the problem ??

and one more thing is this rule can be removed by iptabls -F

thanks

Regards
AD

ad2005 · 03-14-2006, 11:23 AM

eny idea ??

amitsharma_26 · 03-15-2006, 10:56 PM

Remove the dollar ($) sign... & then run the command.

You can restart the IPTABLES service to flush everything.