The machine is running Fedora Core 4. I was mistaken, there were only two nics in the machine. After removing one of them, I'm still presented with the same problem: the remoting layer translates this machines address into 127.0.0.1 when creating the socket wrapper! Clebert, any idea how I could check the routing tables as seen by the remoting/messaging layer. All tests from the command line indicate that the machine is configured correctly. Thank you View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4015822#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...