WHat is the IP address for the firewall for both networks and have you got default gateways for both of them on all the workstations..? Have you used the -J LOG yet to track any dropped packets? Also, how are you using 2 IPs on the NIC, aliasing or IProute2? I'd use iproute2 if I were you. Did you try to ping the other way around and get 131.111.26.1 to ping 10.0.0.1 and see if it reaches the firewall? Thanks, ____________________________________________ George Vieira Systems Manager georgev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Citadel Computer Systems Pty Ltd http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au -----Original Message----- From: T. Horsnell [mailto:tsh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 10:38 PM To: netfilter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: routing bewteen two networks on the same LAN Should iptables be able to forward between two different ip address spaces on the same LAN (i.e. using the same ethernet adapter for both input and output)? We currently have global ip addresses for hosts on our network and I'm trying to migrate them to the 10. private address space. I have a separate iptables box running as a firewall, and have added entries like iptables -A FORWARD -i eth0 -o eth0 -s 10.0.0.0/9 -d 131.111.26.0/24 iptables -A FORWARD -i eth0 -o eth0 -s 131.111.26.0/24 -d 10.0.0.0/9 but I cant get traffic between, say, a host 10.0.0.1 and a host 131.111.26.1 If 10.0.0.1 pings 131.111.26.1, tcpdump on the firewall shows ICMP packets arriving on eth0 from 10.0.0.1 and apparently going out to 131.111.26.1, but 131.111.26.1 never sees them. (I have got IP_FORWARDING turned on..). Any advice would be welcome. Cheers, Terry. -- Terry Horsnell (tsh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) I.T. Manager Medical Research Council Lab of Molecular Biology Hills Road CAMBRIDGE CB2 2QH U.K. Phone: +44 (0)1223 248011 Fax: +44 (0)1223 213556