OK, first of all don't use ifconfig and the family. Use iproute2. By doing: ip addr add 192.168.0.31/24 dev eth0 ip addr add 192.168.0.5/24 dev eth0 ip addr add 192.168.0.32/24 dev eth1 This way you will not have the weird eth0:1 which most probably is the culprit. Ramin On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 03:09:26PM -0500, David C. Hart wrote: > On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 14:18, Ramin Dousti wrote: > > You have three interfaces on the same 192.168.0.0/24. Why? > > > Postfix needs two. While I could create a virtual IP, NIC cards are > cheap enough. > > eth0: SMTP Postfix > eth1: HTTP, FTP, etc and Postfix redirects for regex header and body > checks. > eth0:1 A virtual IP used exclusively to direct port scans and other > miscreant traffic to.