On Tuesday 24 February 2004 12:13 am, Kean Pedersen wrote: > My network right now is: > > Hardware router(192.168.1.1), the only access to Internet. > Desktop (192.168.1.42) > Server/NAT box (eth0:192.168.1.3 and eth1:192.168.2.1) > Laptop (192.168.2.101) > > The hardware router, desktop and server:eth0 are on one switch, while > laptop and server:eth1 are on another switch. > > I then try a ping from my laptop (192.168.2.101) to my desktop > (192.168.1.42), but all packes are lost. The packet count on iptables -L -v > goes up for postrouting/masquerade and forward/accept. What's the routing table on 192.168.1.42? Can the reply packets find their way back to 192.168.2.101 again? Antony. -- Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose. - William H Gates III Please reply to the list; please don't CC me.