It was a problem with the way the nics were configured. The code as posted above works and we saturated the network. Thanks for responding. -- View this message in context: http://netty-forums-and-mailing-lists.685743.n2.nabble.com/Multihoming-problem-tp6455892p6464115.html Sent from the Netty User Group mailing list archive at Nabble.com.