As I said, this configuration "was working before". The new server I'm working has the following ethernet card: 13:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications AR8152 v2.0 Fast Ethernet (rev c1) After testing things again and again experiencing this odd network behavior, I didn't realize that my kernel version was really old: 2.6.32. This kernel version has a Debian bug [1] that describes exactly what was happening. All I had to do was upgrade to 3.0.0, that has a fixed driver for AR8152. Everything works fine now. I'm really sorry for this inconvenience, as I should have my system up-to-date before saying "I'm using that distro version". [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=610474 Thanks everyone for helping. -- Vinicius Massuchetto -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html