Hi all, i am using Suse 8.0 with the default SuSEfirewall2 settings. i add this rule into my SuSEfirewall2 script ( with advice from jammer, many thanks for quick response ) FW_FORWARD_MASQ="0.0.0.0/0,192.168.0.4,tcp,4662 0.0.0.0/0,192.168.0.4,udp,4665" and i get this one Sep 26 15:33:18 keeper kernel: SuSE-FW-DROP-DEFAULT IN=eth1 OUT= MAC=00:60:9 7:be:66:08:00:05:5f:ee:10:8c:08:00 SRC=217.83.108.173 DST=62.194.178.214 LEN=78 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=118 ID=39213 PROTO=UDP SPT=1464 DPT=137 LEN=58 Sep 26 15:33:22 gatekeeper kernel: SuSE-FW-DROP-DEFAULT IN=eth1 OUT= MAC=00:60:9 7:be:66:08:00:05:5f:ee:10:8c:08:00 SRC=217.83.108.173 DST=62.194.178.214 LEN=78 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=118 ID=51501 PROTO=UDP SPT=1464 DPT=137 LEN=58 Thanks Met vriendelijke groeten, Andreas Meier mailto:a.meier.home@gmx.net ************************************************