I've made the changes to my Firestarter rules as suggested by Alexander and I can now access my web server running as a virtual host from my desktop. Here's what I had to change:- In my /etc/firestarter/user-pre file I've added an entry like: # eth1:1 is the alias on top of eth1 $IPT -A INPUT -i eth1 -j ACCEPT Thanks for your help folks. --JM -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Alexander Dalloz Sent: 24 June 2005 13:28 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: RE: Betr.: [CentOS] Multiple IP Addresses in a single NIC Am Fr, den 24.06.2005 schrieb Joao Medeiros um 14:19: > I found what the problem is... I have Firestarter installed and If I > turn it off I can access the web site with the ip alias. I wouldn't > like to have to turn the firewall off. Any thoughts? > --JM iptables isn't able to handle aliased device names (like eth0:0), so you will have to use IPs in your rules rather than device names (like -i eth0 -j ACCEPT). Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG http://pgp.mit.edu 0xB366A773 legal statement: http://www.uni-x.org/legal.html Fedora Core 2 GNU/Linux on Athlon with kernel 2.6.11-1.27_FC2smp Serendipity 14:25:57 up 2 days, 22:40, load average: 0.06, 0.14, 0.10