Hi can anybody clue me in here....? (reposting as it seemed to have not got posted) Imagine a machine with some real network cards (more than one), and fake (aliased) ip addresses, all work but having setup this I want to change the default x server's ip and use another instead having investigated sysconfig/googled it is easy to set up access control for x, but when i used the -from 1.2.3.4. command for xdm suse 9.2 decided to ignore it, gateway wise xdm choose the most direct route out hop wise. but an examination of /etc/X11 conf files seems to make seting x to use a specific ip address rather than another a troublesome affair. http://www.xfree86.org/current/Xserver.1.html#toc6 Can anybody point me to some wise hints since what i tried so far should work but somehow is being ignored Its not a security issue but it must be possible. Can anybody help/suggest/hint ? at what i'm failing to do here.