On Wednesday 25 August 2004 10:41 pm, jonathan_hughes@goodyear.co.za wrote:
Hi guys,
excuse my noob query - but can you advise me here. For what reason does one want to foreward packets from one port to another port?
You have 10 machines behind your Linux box which is your router. You want to access each of them via VNC from some remote site. So you open ports 5900, 5901, 5902 ... etc and route each to a separate machine of the 10 machines, but in the routing you change the port back to 5900 because thats the normal port for VNC and you don't have to set each workstation up with non-standard ports. That's just one example. Side note: Are you sure you wouldn't be happier with Shorewall? It makes configuring iptables dirt easy. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen