> I'm not sure of what you're saying, since the machine goes on the internet > thru an ADSL router, that performs NAT by itself, so the firewall, as far as > I'll use eth1 both as internal and external interface, will only forward > requests to the ADSL router. However, here there's the output of the iptables > -L -n: > ip_forwarding shall only work with two lan cards, no set up shall work as a firewall with one network interface. never tried aliasing either (eth1:0 eth1:1) but sence would it make even if it works, the firewall should be between two networks. Regards Yayati. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html