Hi, > I don't really know what you're doing! Really ... there's only a few lines, I kept them to a minimum so one could simply read them and one can see what happening. > You have added "inet" and "implan" tables, but we don't know what they > are nor what they are used for. Ummm ... 'inet' means internet and 'implan' mean Local Area Network. I though this was intuitive and explains itself, there is only two after all. > MASQUERADE is a form of source NAT, not forwarding, strictly speaking. > It's useful to understand the difference. Furthermore it's not > appropriate in this case, where (I presume) you have a static IP on > eth0. (If not, you probably should.) > > And the whole purpose is unclear. If you've got a NAT router on eth0, > why not connect your LAN to that? Well first up I want to learn how to route from one interface to another. I don't know if this is the best way, I'm reading up by myself and making an effort to try figure it out. >> Why the extra hop? I want to split up my machines and networks, enable bandwith controls, control access to resources add securtiy etc etc etc ..... Regards, Rudi.