I have running code to make the reverse translations, with which protocols such as ftp with PORT commands are working.
No, I think you do not understand...
I have a NAT gateway with a single public address.
I have 15 FTP servers and 22 web servers behind it.
I want people to be able to go to ftp://<hostname> and/or = http://<hostname> for each of them.
Owen, Your suggestion here would set many "security experts" heads on fire. Whatever will they do when NAT doesn't make such things virtually impossible? :-) ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.