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Title: Portfw
Post by: Tony Howden on September 23, 2002, 06:12:02 AM

Hi All

I have just swapped a redhat 7.x server (had an iptables script) for an SME server as my firewall/gateway.

The app that I want to access is on an NT4 box using a single tcp port. The iptables script worked fine for this.

I've loaded the dmc panel for portforwarding and portopening and if I read the lines in the resulting masq file it seems that the correct ipchains instructions are present. With the port set to forward, either with or without the port opened as well, I get a server not found message.

What have I missed ?

TIA

cheers
Tony

Title: Re: Portfw
Post by: Bill Talcott on September 23, 2002, 06:24:35 PM

Are you testing from the LAN? Port forwarding will only work from the external interface...

Title: Re: Portfw
Post by: Tony Howden on September 25, 2002, 07:14:19 AM

Hi Bill

Yes I am testing remotely. I am actually configuring the three servers remotely. Connecting via ssh to the gateway server and then to the two other systems beyond the gateway is not an issue.

I can also use lynx on the gateway to connect to the server-manager page on the internal servers, from the ssh session, but it will not connect via a browser using proxypass, or portfwd.

cheers
Tony