> >IPChains does not do port forwarding. > > Ipchains does the port forwarding, but to the same machine, if you agree to > use the concept of redirecting. It does not forward to some other machine.
Since firewalls are most times in front of an entrie LAN, IPChains would not do portfowarding in that particular sense. I see where you're coming from, that IPChains forwards on the local box, but I believe the original poster's question was more about Port Redirecting. Mike Fetherston.