Okay, i need some help. i have two machines now.. before one machine had 8 ip address aliased and used on one machine doing all the work. Now i would like to route one of the ip address to another machine to handle some load. how would i set it up?? if i setup the second box with the internal ip address, 192.168.230.2 it would be able to ping the world and the first box acting as a router and what not. but if i setup the second box with external ip address, i can't even ping the first box that has two nic's with the internal ip address and the external ip address. Please anyone, help. I would like to get this matter out of the way so i can continue on some other project. -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.