Hi, Looks like after long hours of fight I think I have solved my problems with Ethernet's and SuSEFirewall 5.1. The question is how much trouble I am looking into if I start playing with iproute2 and replacing all the other old routing/networking related scripts, I know it is probably hell of a work yet just wondering :-). Has anyone been to this direction any pointers will be appreciated -- Togan Muftuoglu Unofficial SuSE FAQ Maintainer http://dinamizm.ath.cx