Hi, Further to ip-alias - NAT and ip-alias. Any help on this one would be much appreciated. I have very simple configuration. 1> Linux machine with ip address - eth0: 192.168.2.2/24 eth0:0 172.16.10.10/24 I have NAT enable on eth0 of Linux machine. Output of >ipchains -L -n -t nat Chain POSTROUTING (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination MASQUERADE all -- 172.16.2.0/24 0.0.0.0/0 Also I have dialup connection on linux machine (ppp interface) to connect to public network. 2> another NT machine with ip address, 172.16.10.8/24 I can ping from NT machine to 172.16.10.10 as well 192.168.2.2 on Linux machine. Also I can ping to 192.168.10.8 of NT machine from Linux box. Now my question is, if I try to ping to public IP from NT machine (i.e esentially from ip alias interface) I don't see connectivity (no ICMP echo reply) to outside world. I can connect otherwise (i.e ppp is up and running) Does alias interface needs to add masquerading rule as well? Thanks __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com - : 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