Sorry, I forgot to clarify myself. I'm running SuSE 7.3 Professional. I currently don't have any custom firewall rules in place. I only have holes punched through the firewall to let our scrificial host talk to the real hosts inside our network. I'm doing this using the "FW_FORWARD_MASQ=" line in '/etc/rc.config.d/firewall2.rc.config'. My question is, how do I restart the firewall to re-read that file. I tried 'SuSEfirewall2 stop/start' but it appears to only try to reload any custom firewall rules. Maybe I'm doing this the hard way. If any of you know a better way to do this, please let me know. Thanks again. -- Preston Kutzner | IT Manager Marketing Resources, Inc. This e-mail (and any attachments) is confidential and may contain personal views which are not the views of Marketing Resources, Inc. unless specifically stated. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system, do not use, copy or disclose the information in any way nor act in reliance on it and notify the sender immediately. Please note that Marketing Resources, Inc. monitors e-mails sent or received. Further communication will signify your consent to this.