I have looked throug a few months of list archives to see if this problem was discussed and though I find quite a few messages on masquerading and/or dhcp, I did not see any discussion of the problem that I have. After installation of 6.3, I tried to get masquerading to work but had to go to the SuSE support database. There was an article stating that I needed to use the new firewals package. I installed this but that was not enough. Only because someone had posted to this group earlier did I find that the firewals package was bad and required upgrade. This got masquerading working but I found that the masquerading dies after several hours or a day. Rebooting does not recover it. At the end of the reboot, there is a firewall error message stating that the eth0 interface is defective. I discovered that if I edit rc.config to make START_FW="no", reboot, the network will function again and I can then make START_FW="yes" and reboot to get the firewall/masquerading to work again. This only works for a few more hours and then the same problem. Any ideas of what is happening? Damon Register -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/