Horror, Alright. Maybe I'm just not having a good day. I'd connected the second nic to a second hub (the one my brother's 'puter uses though it ~is~ connected to the first hub) & find that I get no light indicating that the second nic is cooperating. So, using linuxconf, I removed all entries concerning eth1, leaving only eth0 with the public address. I then tried pinging the private ip for that card & got an unreachable response. OK. I then enter the command you'd given me to assign a second ip address to a card which already has an address: # /sbin/ifconfig eth0:1 192.168.0.2 up Then, the private address: # ping 192.168.0.2 PING 192.168.0.2 (192.168.0.2) from 192.168.0.2 : 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 192.168.0.2: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=90 usec Good, that works. Now the public address: # ping 63.249.19.72 PING 63.249.19.72 (63.249.19.72) from 63.249.19.72 : 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 63.249.19.72: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=91 usec Cool. Both addresses work. But the private address on the W2k box: # ping 192.168.0.3 PING 192.168.0.3 (192.168.0.3) from 192.168.0.2 : 56(84) bytes of data. From 192.168.0.2: Destination Host Unreachable The W2k box still won't respond. But if I simply supply public addresses, it works fine. Are we still stalking ipmasq? The more I read of it the further I get from getting this working.... Meph -- Zeus gave Leda the bird. To unsubcribe send e-mail with the word unsubscribe in the body to: Linux-Anyway-Request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?body=unsubscribe