i am new to serverfault, so please inform me of any bad behaviors :)
i searched serverfault (and google) for an answer, but can't find the answer to my problem (i can find answers which are partially what i need, but i lack the knowledge/experience to combine them to the solution to my problem)
the problem is as follows : - i have a public server with port 81 which is available on the public ip address - i have a local server with port 80 which is not available to the public - i want the user to connect to port 81 on the public ip address and arrive at port 80 of the local server (192.168.98.###)
i think i need to do some configuring with iptables, but that's quite foggy to me
i tried some answers from How can I port forward with iptables? but i run into all kinds of errors
some questions : - does the local server have to have some special configuration ? for example do i have to set the gateway to the ip address of the public server ? - /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/ppp0 doesn't exist, is that a problem ?
there are no ports blocked by the firewall
i have total control over the public server which is running on :
# cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl (bhcompile@daffy.perf.redhat.com) (gcc version 3.2.3 20030422 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-6)) #1 Wed Oct 29 15:42:51 EST 2003
# iptables --version
iptables v1.2.8
i don't know the os of the local server, and have no control over its configuration
could you please explain me which iptables settings i could use, or any other configuration ?