On Thursday 18 April 2002 6:05 pm, Bryan J. Snow wrote: > I need help routing and forwarding SMTP traffic across my firewall: > > I have a firewall using iptables with a public(eth0) and a private > interface(eth1). The private interface is connected to a web server that > needs to be able to only send outgoing mail- the web server does not need > to be able to check mail or access anyone's mail account. > > I need a list of the iptables commands needed to allow outgoing SMTP > requests from the internal web server to pass through this firewall to a > mail server on the public network.
iptables -A FORWARD -s <web server IP> -p tcp --dport 25 -j ACCEPT Add that to the end of your existing rules and you should be set. Antony.
