Hi again peoples... I have discovered that our ADSL connection is in bridged mode, can't be changed and is the reason for the virtual IP's not listening on the net side... So, they tell me that the way around this, is to assign the IP's to internal machines, and route them through the gateway... I don't want any of our internal machines to have public IP's,,, So, I thougth, I know, I will put another linux box behind the gateway and have it listening for those IP's and have it routed though the gateway, then I can use portforwarding on that new box to connect to the internal machines. Then in a burst of thought (unusual for me :-) I thought, since the gateway has two network carts, eth0 (to the internet)h and eth1 (to the internal network), why can't I set the ip alises to eth1 and then route them through eth0 to allow connections to them over the net.... I think that will work and will solve my problems, but I am alittle unsure how to go about it... (never had to setup routing before, but was very plesently surprised how easy port forwarding was to setup, and I'm hoping that routing is the same.) So, say the eth0 internet gateway IP was 203.59.43.18 (its not but for discussion purposes it'll do) and eth1, the internal NIC is set to listen for 203.59.43.22, 23, 24 and 25 how would I setup routing so that those address's are routed through eth0??? any help would be seriously appreciated, if I don't work something out, they are going to insist that all the internal machines have public IP's something I REALLY don't want to do... please can anyone help me out here??? many thanks and kindest regards.. Frank Perth WA
