[CentOS] port mapping

[Barry Brimer]

On Sun, 20 Jan 2008, Sobari Tanuwijaya wrote:

> Here is what I want to do:
> I installed a database server on centos, it has a private IP,
> the database server run on a certain port (for e.g. port 5555)
>
> From other place connected to the internet I try to do some kind of sync
> to the database server, so I think I have to set the port mapper in the 
> gateway to pass the access to port 5555 to the centos server.
>
>
>
> Barry Brimer wrote:
>>> Dear All,
>>> If I want to do a port mapping in Centos, what tools should I look for?
>>> Where can I get the information about how to set it up (how to, manuals)?
>> 
>> Could you be more specific with your question?  What kind of "port mapping" 
>> are you talking about?

So you're trying to determine what you need to do to forward connections 
from your system to port 5555 on the remote system via your gateway it 
seems.  What is your gateway running?  Is it running CentOS?