Ok here is what I think is a tricky situation and I was wondering if anyone might have ideas about what I am doing wrong... We are using Veritas Backup Exec on an NT host to backup the RH box, a few Novell servers, and a few NT servers. Awhile back we decided to remove the backup traffic from the production network and build a small network inside the office on which only backup traffic would travel. After a couple of bumps in the road with the first server on said backup network, everything seemed to be working. This evening we installed the new NIC in the RH box. Rebooted and, after tweaking my ipchains a bit, the NIC was up on the backup network and working ok. Put an entry in /etc/hosts for the backup server and I could ping it via the /etc/hosts entry or its backup network IP. The strange part is this: Backup Exec cannot see the RH box, even though you can ping RH from the box running BE over the backup network. If i switch the interface it broadcasts to the backup server on, it pops up in Backup Exec without a problem. But it will not show up on the backup network. According to the DOCs for Backup Exec it uses TCP/IP for the Unix/Linux client. I have a feeling that i am missing something quite simple. If anyone wants, I can send along my IPchains script too (I wouldn't mind if a few folks took a gander at it as i am not sure it is the best configuration I could have...). If more clarification is needed...let me know. ____________________________ Mike Neuharth ADCS Technology Specialist http://www.umn.edu/adcs E-Mail : mjn at umn.edu Page Mail : 6126486512 at page.metrocall.com http://nifty.dsl.visi.com/ ____________________________