Hi all! I want to protect our network with a firewall that should run on a SuSE machine (kernel 2.2 stable). There is a router that provides a permantent DSL connection to the net. Normaly this router is the gateway for all machines on the local net - but not I want to put a firewall between. The network has official ip addresses and all machines shall use these, which means that I do not want to have masquerading. So I have put the firewall machine between router and local net. I have switched on ip_forwarding and - for testing - have set up all ipchains to ACCEPT. Now it should route/forward everything, yes? But it doesn't. I can ping the firewall machine both from outside and from inside. But I cannot reach another host in the network from outside (and the other way around). When I try to ping a host in the network from outside I get a answer from my dsl router that this host is not reachable. Maybe the problem is here, I don't know... Do you have an idea? Thanx a lot! Michael