Greetings: I need to setup a suse firewall to protect 6 IP based virtual sites. There are no options to switching to named sites. Its the firewall that I dont have a lot of experience with and I was wondering what is the best way to address the aliasing. What my concern is that if I use ifconfig eth0:xxx method to alias the six addresses and then port forward:80 to the masqued server what effect if any will the alias's have on the firewall functionality.?? Is this the best way to address this or are their alternatives. Basic setup is very simple. ISP---->{firewall and masq] | |---------------------server 10.10.0.0.1(eg) | (video and mysql) | |--------------------server 10.10.0.2 (eg) Apache 6 IP based VH's Many thanks for any advice. /ch