trying to get oddball setup to work

I'm hoping someone can tell me if what I'm trying to do is possible and if so, how.

Here's a picture of my network topology:

machine x-------internet---------machine y-----private LAN----host a/b/c

Machine x has one interface with a public static IP.
Machine y has two interfaces, one with a public dynamic IP and the other with a private static IP.

Both machines x and y have iptables installed and running.
I have an ipsec tunnel (using FreeS/Wan) working between machines x and y. With this tunnel I can ping any of the hosts on my private LAN from machine x. I can also mount a shared partition from, say, host b onto machine x. I include this just to show that the ipsec tunnel is working.

What I want to do is use NAT to forward certain ports on machine x to machines on my private LAN. Right now, if I open a port in iptables on machine x, I can connect to machine x from the internet on that port. If I try to forward the port to host c, packets seem to disappear on machine x. I can see the packets arrive at machine x using tcpdump but nothing goes out again.

Thanks for any help provided.

Andrew

On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 09:18:52 -0400,
"Andrew St. Jean" <[email protected]> wrote in message <[email protected]>:

..what you ask for is doable as "ssh portforwarding", usually done to localhost, but I dont see any reason why not to put those ports on hosts y, a, b or c instead of "localhost" in your lan scenario, as long as you firewall it all.

..ipsec, well it should'nt hurt, you could pack all ssh tunnels in it if your traffic goes thru really crappy hardware, there is some _real_ junk out there that will reboot if it sees more than 256 ip connections... like yourself reading news.google.com or somesuch.

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