Hi folks, I have been busy for the last few days and didn't check my mail since friday. Between the S.u.S.E, Ssh, and KDE lists I had 600 new messages! Wow! Of course this is not why I am writing. I am trying to figure out a way that I can set up a small ethernet network in my house and have one of the servers dial up my ISP and act as a gateway to the rest of the world. I am not sure that Masquerading is the solution. Has anybody ever done this? The biggest problem, as I see it, is that I always get a different IP from my ISP. I am trying to read the stuff on firewalls and masquerading. I came across a comment in the firewall section that indicated I needed to set up a static IP address. I don't mind going in and changing a config file by hand each time I make a connection if I must. I'm sure this could eventually be scripted. My time is limited so I would like to know if someone can point me in the direction of a workable solution. Here's the vision of the final product. The comserver is a 486 /w 16M of RAM, a 350 M HD, a 3c509TP and a USR 288/33.6 modem. The other systems have TP 3com cards running NT, 98 or Linux as my needs arise. I plan on using the 486 as strictly a LINUX box. Any ideas? Oh yea, in the long run I would like to switch between ISPs as well. TIA Steve -- [<A HREF="http://counter.li.org"><A HREF="http://counter.li.org</A">http://counter.li.org</A</A>>] S.u.S.E. Linux, www.suse.com I Think, I think I am, Therefore I am, I think? - Graeme Edge of the Moody Blues - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e