Hello, Thanks, for your answer. > Anyway, I must admit I have some difficulties to understand your context > and the particular reason why A cannot listen on ip-a, ip-c, ip-d and > ip-e. The fact is locally generated packets NAT works. I use it all the > time for SSH redirections, but I never tried it on locally destined > traffic. The more I can say is try and see for yourself, but I guess it > will work (don't forget local traffic is bound to lo interface, whatever > local addresses it uses as source or destination). > My Context: ip-a: mysql 3 ip-c: mysql 3 ip-d: mysql 3 ip-e: mysql 3 new ip: ip-b: mysql 4.0 i can bind mysql to one or to all ip-addresses. so it's not possible to bind mysql 3 to all ip-addresses without ip-b. my idea: bind mysql3 to ip-a and "redirect" ip-c, -d, -e to ip-a. Greetings Andreas -- 250 MB Mailbox, 100 FreeSMS/Monat, 1000 MB Online-Festplatte Jetzt GMX TopMail kostenlos testen http://www.gmx.net/de/go/topmail