port forwarding? routing?

[larry-schmid@home.com]

Mike Starke wrote:

> I do have one question: How can I tell if portfw is working, short
> of the obvious? At least with ipchains, I can add -l wherver I need to
> to hunt down the offending chain.

If you run tcpdump on the target ssh box you can watch for port 22
connection attempts as well as if it tries to reply.  It's possible that
the ssh attempt is getting to the target but the reply is not being
routed back correctly.  Is the default gateway for the target box the
Linux firewall?

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Larry