I am using Red Hat 8 (2.4.18-14) with Iptable (V1.2.6.a) , the layout of my net is: Host A ---------- Firewall ------ Host B (Outside) (My_WS) Net A: 172.19.100.0 - 172.19.100.31 Netmask : 255.255.255.224 IP A: 172.19.100.28 GW: 172.19.100.30 Net B: 172.19.100.32 - 172.19.100.63 Netmask: 255.255.255.224 IP B: 172.19.100.50 GW: 172.19.100.33 And for the Firewall: Eth0: 172.19.100.30 Eth1: 172.19.100.33 Both with netmask 255.255.255.224 The rules for the Firewall are: Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT 0 packets, 0 bytes) num pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination 1 0 0 ACCEPT all -- lo * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT 0 packets, 0 bytes) num pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination 1 0 0 ACCEPT all -- * lo 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 Chain FORWARD (policy DROP 0 packets, 0 bytes) num pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination 1 0 0 ACCEPT tcp -- eth0 eth1 0.0.0.0/0 172.19.100.50 tcp dpt:80 2 0 0 ACCEPT all -- eth0 eth1 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 state RELATED,ESTABLISHED 3 0 0 ACCEPT all -- eth1 eth0 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 The forward is enable in the FW (echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward)and the routing table is: Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 172.19.100.32 * 255.255.255.224 U 0 0 0 eth1 172.19.100.0 * 255.255.255.224 U 0 0 0 eth0 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo default 172.19.100.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 I want that everything from Net B can go out, but from Net A only to host B is allow. Ok, where we go, if I tray to the webserver on host B from host A everything is OK, then I make a ping form host B to host A and also work. But if I down the interface on host B and then bring it up again, when I ping host A from host B doesn't work. I tray with another hosts on LAN B (say 172.19.100.54) and it's the same, all the packets are lost. The only way I found to work is first make a ping to the FW from host B and then retry to host A. Thanks for your help. Sorry, about my english. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com