I have a Suse 8.1 install. All of my addresses are public. The Suse machine is the firewall and behind a router. The problem seems to be that the Suse machine will not forward packets. It can talk to the router and to the local network but nothing crosses over. /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward is 1 I have tried this two ways. SuSEfirewall2 following ll prompts to attempt to setup an OPEN forwarding bridge (to test) and also with rules in place. Neither seem to work. I also installed firewall builder and tried to setup a routing firewall with that. I have been building firewalls in RedHat for a couple of years and have never tried to do this in SUSE and am quite stuck. There is a good deal of inertia regarding staying with SUSE so I would appreciate any suggestions you can make short of reverting to Redhat. Thanks! -- -Paul Dorn http://www.HelpdeskGenius.com Call for Linux support today: 866-365-7401