Wow! That made a difference. One echo "0" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/eth1/rp_filter and everything started working. Thanks a lot Torsten and Alex - I wouldn't have solved it without your suggestions. Paul Viney On Wednesday 14 February 2007 21:17, Torsten Luettgert wrote: > This is one of my favourites :-) > > Usually that problem is caused by the rp_filter feature, which silently > drops packets that arrive on an interface answers wouldn't be routed to. > > Just try > > for i in /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/eth*/rp_filter; do > echo 0 > $i > done > > and see if that helps. > (indeed, you don't really need to switch it off for all of them, just > the uplink interfaces would be enough) > > Hth, > Torsten _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.ds9a.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lartc