Hi, I'm new to the list and a babe with iptables. I've tried various routing and filtering cominations as described on different sites around the net and for the moment am trying multihomed host as described on routeskeeper.sourceforge sorry its a bit long My setup - Debian Sarge (stable) no udev, etc, clean and simple kernel 2.6.11 (from unstable) iptables 1.2.11 (stable) should I go to 1.3.1 ?? (from unstable) fiaif firewall disabled till we get the routing correct at present testing with one internal pc 2x100M network cards eth0-2 each connected to an adsl bridged modem each adsl line is layer 3 bridged with separate IP, GW, NET, BCAST /30 subnets. 1x1000M network card to internal switch and numerous pcs ip rule add prio 1 from $IPE1 lookup 1 ip rule add prio 1 from $IPE2 lookup 2 ### I couldn't get anything until I included the gateway today I tried again with no gateway, now I can't get in from home. ip route add table 1 to default dev $IFE1 via $GWE1 ip route add table 2 to default dev $IFE2 via $GWE2 ip route add to default \ nexthop dev $IFE1 via $GWE1 weight 1 \ nexthop dev $IFE2 via $GWE2 weight 1 iptables -A POSTROUTING -t mangle -j MARK --set-mark 1 \ -m state --state NEW -o $IFE1 iptables -A POSTROUTING -t mangle -j MARK --set-mark 2 \ -m state --state NEW -o $IFE2 iptables -A POSTROUTING -t mangle -j CONNMARK --save-mark \ -m state --state NEW iptables -A PREROUTING -t mangle -j CONNMARK --restore-mark ip rule add fwmark 1 lookup 1 ip rule add fwmark 2 lookup 2 iptables -A POSTROUTING -t nat -m mark --mark 1 \ -j SNAT --to-source $IPE1 iptables -A POSTROUTING -t nat -m mark --mark 2 \ -j SNAT --to-source $IPE2 ###I can access the net and internal network from the gateway I can ssh and vnc into the gateway from home the dual path is nicely load sharing ?? root@mantrix:~# ping -I 58.6.33.214 google.com PING google.com (216.239.39.99) from 58.6.33.214 : 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 216.239.39.99: icmp_seq=1 ttl=239 time=256 ms root@mantrix:~# ping -I 58.6.33.210 google.com PING google.com (216.239.37.99) from 58.6.33.210 : 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 216.239.37.99: icmp_seq=1 ttl=238 time=265 ms root@mantrix:~# ping google.com PING google.com (216.239.57.99) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 216.239.57.99: icmp_seq=1 ttl=240 time=180 ms Can access the gateway from the internal network. We can't SNAT from the network out to the real world Cheers, Colin