Dominik Zyla wrote: >> Are you saying you must have the setting you mention in /etc/sysctl.conf >> ? That cannot be true, as I can access my server and I don't have your >> entry. > Check your iptables rules. Maybe there are no INPUT rules to access your > gateway via internal nic. I don't see the relevance of that. I never said I had or didn't have any iptables rules. I'm simply observing that I do not have the specified setting and I can access my server from my LAN, therefore the setting cannot be essential for this purpose. I can access the server because I have loc $FW ACCEPT in /etc/shorewall/policy; but that is not really relevant to the point at issue. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland