On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 19:02 -0400, Trevor "TeC" Christian wrote: > Adding to the mention of firewall rules... iptables (when last checked), > i believe does not recognize eth0:X as a device and as such rules > related to said traffic still have to be applied based on the main > interface. > > Correct me if I'm wrong... > > > -- Trevor, You may be correct but I believe it can be managed by using the IP addresses -A INPUT -s ###.###.###.250 -i lo -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -s ###.###.###.251 -i lo -j ACCEPT -A OUTPUT -s ###.###.###.250 -j ACCEPT -A OUTPUT -s ###.###.###.251 -j ACCEPT where ###.###.###.250 is addressed in eth0 and ###.###.###.251 is addressed in eth0:1 This is how I was able to do it. Greg