hello gentelmen could somebody to share with me a working configuration, of course if you have such one, for the following conditions: i have: 1) a ppp0 interface (ADSL modem working as the bridge, connected to eth0 (broadcasting)) 2) my local PC, all connection passes through (working as router) 3) on my local PC 3 additional interfaces are up: br0 - bridge (192.168.0.1 - dhcp), vbox0 (obtains address from dhcp), eth1 - broadcatsing in my local network i have a set of addresses which is connected to the internet 192.168.0.223-192.168.0.254 -> eth1 -> br0 -> ppp0 and other, which are members of local network, but they should not be connected to the internet. questions are: 1) which zones should i set up first and how 2) which interfaces and how should they be defined 3) how to shape a traffic for my local PC (127.0.0.1) [full*3/4 -- full] 4) how to shape a traffic for machines in range 192.168.0.223-192.168.0.254 as [full/8 -- full/4] 5) how to turn the balance on for the traffic between those machines 6) how to turn the balance in for the traffic in local network area 7) how should i set up port forwarding if i need some ps. sorry for bad english if any, i was drunk when i was writing this email )) thx ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H