Hello, You're on he wrong mailinglist :). For load balancing questions you should consider the LVS mailinglist. > [root@bhcebiz2 ipv4]# ls -l /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/ > total 0 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 1 17:56 accept_redirects > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 1 17:56 accept_source_route > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 1 17:56 arp_filter > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 1 17:56 bootp_relay > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 1 17:56 forwarding > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 1 17:56 log_martians > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 1 17:56 mc_forwarding > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 1 17:56 medium_id > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 1 17:56 proxy_arp > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 1 17:56 rp_filter > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 1 17:56 secure_redirects > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 1 17:56 send_redirects > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 1 17:56 shared_media > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 1 17:56 tag You didn't patch your kernel to make it support the 'hidden' feature. Please apply following patch to your kernel (the best would be a plain vanilla kernel): http://heidi.linuxvirtualserver.org/~julian/hidden-2.4.19pre5-1.diff Best regards, Roberto Nibali, ratz -- echo '[q]sa[ln0=aln256%Pln256/snlbx]sb3135071790101768542287578439snlbxq'|dc - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html