Greetings to all

Friends people with more knowledge than me ( and sense) can help to troubleshoot it.
When one should try to connect to port 3306 of particular ip here e.g. 345.56.67.87 it should be redirected to port 3306 of internal machine.
This is the scene : How can I access the particular port of the machine which is behind the router . i.e. From out side internet I would like to connect to the port 21 of the machine (192.168.5.8) which is behind router (345.56.67.87) .
Here are the details I tried :
both side linux (centos)
1. enabled ip forwarding of router (345.56.67.87)
2. enabled ip forwarding of machine (192.168.5.8)
3. implemented some iptable rules: /sbin/iptables -t nat -A OUTPUT --dst 345.56.67.87 -p tcp --dport 3306 -j DNAT --to-destination 192.168.5.8:3306
4. iptables -t nat -A OUTPUT --dst 345.56.67.87 -p tcp --dport 3306 -j DNAT --to-destination 192.168.5.8:3306


I tried to google on it mainly it dealt with the iptable rules. of which i applied but error is" can not connect to the port 3306 of 192.168.5.8"

If you are able to change the router, then you only need to forward the port in the router (eg 3306) to the IP of the machine on the local network (eg 192.168.5.8). You don't need the iptable rules on the local machine, since it doesn't have direct access to the internet, so cannot do any network address translation (I'm presuming your router is the gateway).

When connecting from outside, you don't connect to 192.168.5.8 (since that is not the external address), but to the router IP (eg 145.56.67.87, or whatever it is). The router will transparently forward the traffic to the computer on the local network (and return replies).

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