Hello list, I require a little bit of your help. My Router/Gateway runs with SuSE 8.1 Professional. I installed VMWare from CD. The VMWare Guest-System is W2k-Pro and within this, Overnet/Emule is installed. My Router has two network cards, one for LAN one for DSL. My home network is through the Router and SuSEfirewall masqueraded/protected. Respective a TCP/UDP Port is forwarded to the Guest-System. The NIC's from the Guestsystem are bridged to eth0, the internal nic. I think that all should work, but doesn't do it! Overnet/Emule says "Firewalled." I tried all and I am almost desperate. I have tried to dump the networktrafic on the ports on internal Nic, but nothing happened. As last, I got the idea, if I be too stupid to install a Firewall with masquerading. And so I tested the w2k environment on a real computer. Well, I am not so stupidly! All is working fine. Is this a problem with the modules from vmware network system or did I overlook something in SuSEfirewall2? Goes the traffic for vmware through pre/postrouting? Before I will install a vpn/pptp solution(which is my next idea) between host/guest-system and I retest all again, I would like to ask the list for some help or some ideas. Therefore many thanks and happy Christmas! Mit freundlichen Grüßen M. Neubert -- # Mario Neubert -- IT-Enterprise-Solutions # Obere Mühlenstr. 36, D-04178 Leipzig, Germany # Phone: +49 341 4422391, Fax: +49 341 44219870 # Internet: http://www.mario-neubert.de