still no luck. I know someone here mentioned they were running NAT and MASQ. They are at different levels and should work. I think it is related to the ARP of the systems trying to talk. However, if I try to publish the ARP or the NAT IP address on eth1, the interface it should be assigned to, the arp -s ... pub command ALWAYS assigns the IP address to eth0. Is there something I am missing? Is there patch CODE that needs to be in the kernel somewhere?? thanks for any help, rich |