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MOSIX is a software tool for supporting cluster computing. The core of the MOSIX technology is the capability of multiple workstations and servers to work cooperatively as if part of a single system. The primary job of MOSIX is, when you create (one or more) processes, MOSIX will distribute (and redistribute) your processes (transparently) among various MOSIX-enabled workstations / servers, to obtain the best possible performance. When two processes that communicate over the network are created and are then distributed over the network, MOSIX still binds them to the base workstation where they were created for system calls. This means that the communication processes talk to each other through their base node and not directly. The technique discussed in this report discusses this communicating method, the reasons behind this method and a technique for improvising this method by not changing the basic architecture. The proposed technique uses the firewalling system called IPTables, available in the Linux operating system to allow the processes to communicate through their base node and also improve the performance of the processes to nearly the same as if the processes were communicating