On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 12:58 -0800, Thamara Wanigatunga wrote: > Dear Gurus, > > I need to have 4 web servers behind a iptables packet > filter, could i achive this through alised ips. Or > what could you recomend. Please help .. > <snip> I assume you want each to have a unique public IP and perform NAT on the iptables firewall. If that is the case, One typically adds the NAT rule(s), the access control rules in the FORWARD chain and binds the IP address to the public interface of the iptables firewall using iproute2. There is a slide show training session about using iproute2 in the training section of http://iscs.sourceforge.net Hope this helps - John -- John A. Sullivan III Open Source Development Corporation +1 207-985-7880 jsullivan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Financially sustainable open source development http://www.opensourcedevel.com