It seems you're making things very hard for yourself this way. Why would you want CompB and CompC to have the same IP address? Things will be so much easier when you give them different IP's, then you could use the simplest of forwarding rules. Life is supposed to be easy: It should be like a stroll in the park on a sunny day :-) Regards, Willem ----- Original Message ----- From: "honey grp" <honeypict@yahoo.co.in> To: <netfilter@lists.samba.org> Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 10:05 PM Subject: Problem Regarding Forwarding > > Hi, > > I have my network setup as > > eth1-----------COMP B > > Comp A ------eth0----Gateway---| > > eth2------------COMP C > > I want to forward the traffic from CompA to both CompB as well as CompC. The problem is I want to keep same IP address for Both Comp B and Comp C. (I know there will be conflict but I am keeping CompB OFF when CompC is ON and vice versa). > > Now, how should I write iptable rules so that traffic will be forwarded to both eth1 as well as eth2 so that the host that is ON will respond > > Thanking you, > > Regards, > > Honeypict group
