Yes. I plan to use centos as the OS on the gateway server. Barry Brimer wrote: > > > 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. >> >> > 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?