portforward port 23 telnet iptables help.

[xcurtisx]

As the title says I am trying to forward inbound ( from the internet ) telnet ( port 23) connections to the WAN ip of 123.123.123.187 (eth0) through 192.168.1.1 (eth1) to to host server 192.168.1.202 on port 23.
Here is what I have ATM.

[root@gabriel sysconfig]# iptables -L
Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination
ACCEPT     tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            tcp spt:telnet dpt:telnet

Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination
[root@gabriel sysconfig]#

and
..

[root@gabriel sysconfig]# iptables -L -t nat
Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination

Chain POSTROUTING (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination
SNAT       all  --  192.168.0.0/16       anywhere            to:123.123.123.187

Chain PREROUTING (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination
DNAT       tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            tcp dpt:telnet to:192.168.1.202:23
[root@gabriel sysconfig]#

but it does not work and I am hitting a brick wall.
The 192.168.1.202 server gladly accepts telnet requests from other hosts all day long so I know that is not the issue.
Please help. Thanks in advance.

[quitespy]

The quick and secure way to sort this out is to load OPENVPN on the server and desktop. Once they have establish a VPN connection they will be able to ftp or ssh to the server

[xcurtisx]

They won't be using any desktops I am routing between Unix systems that are actually already on a VPN but still run so very scary services and I need a layer inbetween to "watch" whats going on and to be able to disappear to certain hosts if I am scanned - botherd and so on.

[xcurtisx]

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