On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 07:35:33PM -0700, Royce Kemp wrote: > at first this is what I thought the solution would be, but Mark Wells said > that his mail server is on the same subnet as the client machine > (192.168.1.8 and 192.168.1.34)... so why can't the mail server communicate > directly with the client machine? so packet go from client to firewall and > are redirected to the mail server.. then the mail server will arp for > 192.168.1.34 and return packet directly to him). is this not possible? just as people refuse to search the ML archives, i refuse to re-type this email for the 50th time. speaking of #50--here it is: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=netfilter&m=110571844432115&w=2 -j -- "Stewie: OK, Harold, what do you think of our Mad Lib Stewie: "Cinderella had two step-'watermelons', who were very 'smelly' to her. So her fair god'toilet' turned her pumpkin into a big 'fanny', and dragged her off to the 'poop'. Stewie: Oh, how ruthlessly absurd." --Family Guy