Hi. Still no luck. It seems that my firewall is allowing the connection: Dec 9 12:19:54 polop kernel: SuSE-FW-ACCEPT IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:05:1c:10:ee:75:00:60:68:81:10:c7:08:00 SRC=68.33.60.84 DST=192.168.1.2 LEN=40 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=108 ID=43842 PROTO=TCP SPT=6346 DPT=1130 WINDOW=0 RES=0x00 ACK RST URGP=0 But still others cannot connect and gtk-gnutells tells me I'm firewalled. Could it be something to do with my adsl router? thanks, Steve. Here is the config /stc/sysconfig/SuSEfirewall2: FW_QUICKMODE="no" FW_DEV_EXT="eth0" FW_DEV_INT="" FW_DEV_DMZ="" FW_ROUTE="yes" FW_MASQUERADE="yes" FW_MASQ_DEV="$FW_DEV_EXT" FW_MASQ_NETS="0/0" FW_PROTECT_FROM_INTERNAL="no" FW_AUTOPROTECT_SERVICES="no" FW_SERVICES_EXT_TCP="6346 9192 domain http https ssh" FW_SERVICES_EXT_UDP="domain 6346" FW_SERVICES_EXT_IP="" FW_SERVICES_DMZ_TCP="" FW_SERVICES_DMZ_UDP="" FW_SERVICES_DMZ_IP="" FW_SERVICES_INT_TCP="" FW_SERVICES_INT_UDP="" FW_SERVICES_INT_IP="" FW_SERVICES_QUICK_TCP="" FW_SERVICES_QUICK_UDP="" FW_SERVICES_QUICK_IP="" FW_TRUSTED_NETS="" FW_ALLOW_INCOMING_HIGHPORTS_TCP="yes" FW_ALLOW_INCOMING_HIGHPORTS_UDP="yes" FW_SERVICE_AUTODETECT="yes" FW_SERVICE_DNS="no" FW_SERVICE_DHCLIENT="no" FW_SERVICE_DHCPD="no" FW_SERVICE_SQUID="yes" FW_SERVICE_SAMBA="no" FW_FORWARD="" FW_FORWARD_MASQ="" FW_REDIRECT="192.168.1/24,0/0,tcp,80,3128" FW_LOG_DROP_CRIT="yes" FW_LOG_DROP_ALL="yes" FW_LOG_ACCEPT_CRIT="yes" FW_LOG_ACCEPT_ALL="yes" FW_LOG="--log-level warning --log-tcp-options --log-ip-option --log-prefix SuSE-FW" FW_KERNEL_SECURITY="yes" FW_STOP_KEEP_ROUTING_STATE="no" FW_ALLOW_PING_FW="yes" FW_ALLOW_PING_DMZ="no" FW_ALLOW_PING_EXT="no" FW_ALLOW_FW_TRACEROUTE="yes" FW_ALLOW_FW_SOURCEQUENCH="yes" FW_ALLOW_FW_BROADCAST="no" FW_IGNORE_FW_BROADCAST="yes" FW_ALLOW_CLASS_ROUTING="no" FW_CUSTOMRULES="" FW_REJECT="no" FW_HTB_TUNE_DEV=""