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So, to be clear, you're trying to use your internal machines to connect to an external IP address that's actually a NATted address for an internal machine, right?


My gateway machine has 2 external addresses, and one internal address. The internal address connects to our internal LAN. Clients on the internal LAN would like to be able to access the external IP addresses of the gateway machine.

This actually worked, until I modified the routing tables to accept traffic from both external interfaces, but now it does not work. It had been working for years.

Once the nameservers finally update and everyone stops using the old external address, I can disconnect that link, restore the original very simple routing table, and my inside clients should again be able to access the external IP addresses of the gateway. But I'd like to have it working regardless, in case I decide to keep both external IP connections..

Cheers