I found this on the smoothwall site in the forums and since I know nothing about iptables, does this look like it will work?
/Hi, i download and install Smoothwall 2 Express , only test the smooth. with a green and orange configuration ISDN and DSL is disable , via web administration put forwardings from GREEN to ORANGE zone and these rules not working , via ssh execute iptables -t nat -L and i dont view my rule.... but if i edit the rc.firewall.up and put manually the rules "/sbin/iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -i $GREEN_DEV -d 10.1.1.229 --dport 23 -j DNAT --to 192.168.77.2:23 " "/sbin/iptables -A FORWARD -p tcp -i $ORANGE_DEV -d 192.168.77.2 --dport 23 -j ACCEPT" /Evan the forward work and when execute iptables -t nat -L i view my rule, and Then > Thats the nature of the beast. I've seen this happen on a number of > systems, including mine -- m0n0wall. > I don't think IPCop has this flaw though. > > AFAIK, there is no way around it; of course, I could just be blowing > smoke. > > Out of curiosity, why can't you just use the local IP? Why do you need > to use the remote one? > > On 9/20/06, *Evan Brown* < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > Hi > > I'm not sure if anyone is experienced with the Smoothwall fire > wall but > I have one setup and running well although I have a small problem > from a > usability stand point. I need to connect from my green zone to the red > zone using the red zone IP address. We are currently port forwarding > from red to green and that works fine outside of the lan but when > we on > the lan we can't hit the red zone ip. Any help would be appreciated. > > Evan Brown > > > replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying

