Port forward

[dehalgren]

I currently forward port 25 to my sendmail server on my netgear router. I am setting up a postfix server on a different machine. My n
etgear router will not let me port forward port 25 to 2 different machines at the same time. Can I forward port 25 to a different port for postfix to work correctly and which would be the best port. I presume that I can.
Thanks

[TrevorH]

You can only port forward a port to one destination. That's only required for inbound mail anyway and I'm assuming that you don't want to handle inbound mail on two different machines?

[dehalgren]

Well yes I did.Was not sure if I could forward port 25 to different ip addresses on my router or not, or if I could forward port 25 to port 25 on one machine and forward port 25 to a different port on the second machine

[TrevorH]

There's only one port 25 on your external ip address - that is assuming you only have one external ip address. You cannot forward it to two places, pick one. If you need to forward to a second machine then you'll need a second external ip addresss (and a firewall/router capable of handling that).

[dehalgren]

Thanks TrevorH