Hello, This is a kinda strange problem I do have with an FC3 server having 2NICs. Obvioulsy our configuration isn't the "fittest" indeed, but since I use a web hosting control panel, which needs an external IP address (mounted in the NIC, NAT won't work for their licence and update policy), I had to use two NICs, one for the control panel licencing, and another behind NAT where a bunch of IPs do exist for serving people's web-hosting needs. (Too risky nowadays to have http or other servicesdirectly exposed to the big-bad-internet[TM], so all usual services would stay behind the NAT) I had setup the two NICs as follows eth0 is the NATed one thus it had an 10.0.x.y ip address 10.0.x.0 network 10.0.x.255 broadcast 10.0.x.z gateway 255.255.255.0 netmask eth1 is the directly connected to the net NIC thus x.y.z.w ip address x.y.z.0 network x.y.z.255 broadcast x.y.z.v gateway 255.255.255.0 netmask Now the eth1 works as it's supposed to do, services are accessible from outside, without any problems. From the other hand eth0 can't be used from the net. Thus the services are reachable from any machine around that's 10.0.x.sth, but from the outer net pretty nothing. That machine is a dedicated server, thus it hadn't be set up from myself, and since I have only SSH, webmin, and the webhosting panel as remote administration tools, it couldn't be so easy to find out what happens. Now ... I have contacted the provider of these dedicated servers, and his advice was to set some metrics for the routing in order not to have assymetric routing with the 2NICs ... ok it sounds a bit cryptic to me, any help would be appreciatable. The inet IPs of the NATed ones, aren't in the same range with the ones at eth1, thuseth1 is x.y.z.w but the eth0 card (whenever it comes usable), would be accessed from a x'.y'.z'.w' address which is completely different from the aforementioned x.y.z.w Any ideas please? Thanks in advance Nicholas.
