http://unix.stackexchange.com – I'm wondering about this, and I can't seem to find an explanation on the internet. I have a linux gateway which has multiple interfaces: eth0: external ip eth1: 172.16.1.1/24 eth2: 172.16.2.1/24 ip_forward is enabled. IPtables is configured to NAT traffic from eth1 -> eth0 and eth2 -> eth0. (HowTos)