Hi all, I have used all my aspirin supply trying to understand/solve the problem I'll describe below... Please Help! :) The enviroment: =============== +-------------+ | Network A | +------+------+ | +------+YA----+ | Firewall A | +------+XA----+ | | | +------+XB----+ | Firewall B | +------+YB----+ | +------+------+ | Network B | +-------------+ XA = eth0 (intrernet) YA = eth1 (intranet) XB = eth0 (intrernet) \_ 1 IP address plus 2 more IP addresses using the same NIC (eth0, eth0:0, eth0:1) YB = eth1 (intranet) Both Firewalls configuration: - Slackware 9.0 - Kernel 2.4.21-ac4 - iptables 1.2.8 The Problem =========== Ping the Firewall B interface eth0 from Firewall A... No problem, the round-trip is OK... 17 ms avg. Ping the Firewall B interface eth0 from Network A... No problem, the round-trip is OK... 17 ms avg. Ping the Firewall B aliased interface eth0:0 from Network A... the round-trip increases a lot... 150-300 ms avg. Ping the Firewall B aliased interface eth0:0 from Firewall A... the round-trip is OK again... 17 ms avg. I think the problem is at the SNAT/DNAT configuration, but I wasn't able to find it yet. Iptables DNAT/SNAT configuration (eth0:0 eth0:1) ================================================ iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -d 1.1.1.1 -j DNAT --to 10.0.0.1 iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s 10.0.0.1 -j SNAT --to 1.1.1.1 iptables -A FORWARD -i eth0 -mstate --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT 1.1.1.1 = eth0:0 aliased IP address 10.0.0.1 = network B intranet IP address Thanks in advance. Best regards ________________________ Fabio Bastiglia Oliva fboliva@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx