> The game is Age of Mythology. Mm. Don't know if you need a helper. Can't find anything on it. > I want packets originating from internet to $OUT to be > accepted by the > gateway and redirected to $IN. Without the ifconfig, the gateway > appears to accept only packets to itself. Yes. The gateway has 2 IP addresses, 1 public ($OUT) and 1 private ($IN). >From the internet you can't reach $IN (nor any host in your LAN) unless you use NAT or have multiple public IP's to assign to hosts in your LAN. > I want the gateway to have an IP address of its own, distinct from > $OUT. I don't see the point in "appearing to come from another IP", because reply packets would not reach you anymore (private IP), or you'd have asymmetric routing (2nd public IP). Or maybe someone should tell me what I'm missing that makes sense of it. Rob.