From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "George Vieira" Subject: RE: Help Regarding iptables Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 10:15:56 +1000 Sender: netfilter-admin@lists.netfilter.org Message-ID: References: <4759.202.125.153.158.1058535304.squirrel@intranet> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4759.202.125.153.158.1058535304.squirrel@intranet> Errors-To: netfilter-admin@lists.netfilter.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Zeeshan Pervez , netfilter@lists.netfilter.org You'll probably find NAT doesn't work with vmware but I may be wrong. Do some logging tests to see if packets generated from the vmware server does pass through iptables or not. I remember somewhere something saying netfilter doesn't see those packets, something like the vmware software is NATing itself or something.. I may be totally wrong so yo have to -j LOG all traffic on your machine and check if any are from the vmware server. -----Original Message----- From: netfilter-admin@lists.netfilter.org [mailto:netfilter-admin@lists.netfilter.org]On Behalf Of Zeeshan Pervez Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 11:35 PM To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org Subject: Help Regarding iptables Importance: High hello there sir i have established a virtual network using vmware. i want to do packet filtering based on their content . can i achieve this by iptables. pls help me in detail steps as i amquite new in linux Regards Zeeshan Pervez National University of Sciences and Technology (Pakistan)