Because of the volume of questions recently regarding Shorewall and Virtual/Aliased Interfaces (e.g., eth0:0), I have written a document that discusses this issue. It may be found at: http://www.shorewall.net/Shorewall_and_Aliased_Interfaces.html The document is linked from the "Documentation Index" and from FAQ #18. -Tom -- Tom Eastep \ Shorewall - iptables made easy Shoreline, \ http://www.shorewall.net Washington USA \ teastep@shorewall.net