Dawes, Stephen writes: > The problem that you may be having is that you have not initialized your > nic with all of the external ip-addresses. eth0:0 for the first one, and > eth0:1 for the next in line etc. > Eth0 is the interface, and the :X indicates all of the locations for the > ipaddresses. Duh, stick head in pail of water twice and pull out once. But of course. I didn't do this before restarting iptables with the new rules. Will remedy and test tonight. PS: I don't want to do this during the day because the box serves my business, including my phones. > A friend of mine has done what you are trying to do on his ip-tables. I > can see if he wants to share his set-up with us. The only problem is he > is out of town until next Monday. No problem. If this is still an issue Monday, I will appreciate his wisdom. Thanks. Janina