It appears that your router gateway is NAT'ed (Network address translated) read rfc1918. I think that you would have to go into the configuration of router and change the filter/rule to allow an outside connection into your Apache webserver. You might find that someone has done this on www.practicallynetworked.com and click on the forums link... I'm sure you will find someone has covered this before on there. *Beware* if you change the filters on your AP gateway unless you know what you are doing, you have then allowed anyone access to your internal ip's !!! I would suggest setting up SuseFirewall on another pc on your internal net and use that as your gateway to DSL AP station, then only allow a connection to your Webserver machine from the specific external machine & drop all other ip the webserver. Your firewall box would need 3 network cards. 1st nic to AP 2nd nic to DMZ which would have your Apache Box 3rd nic to 192.168.x.x Dre ;-) Luck is my game ;-) Linux is my aim :) linux:/home/eric # ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:04:61:44:2E inet addr:192.168.1.101 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::250:4ff:fe61:442e/10 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:3064 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:2975 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:1997152 (1.9 Mb) TX bytes:410611 (400.9 Kb) Interrupt:5 Base address:0xbc00 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:127 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:127 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:182827 (178.5 Kb) TX bytes:182827 (178.5 Kb) linux:/home/eric # netstat Active Internet connections (w/o servers) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State tcp 0 0 192.168.1.101:32906 192.168.1.1:netbios-ssn ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 192.168.1.101:32907 192.168.1.1:netbios-ssn ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 192.168.1.101:32908 192.168.1.1:netbios-ssn ESTABLISHED udp 0 0 localhost:filenet-nch localhost:filenet-nch ESTABLISHED Active UNIX domain sockets (w/o servers) *cut* Others have reponded and I went to a couple of their sites which returned an IP address of 80.132.20.157. So l go to my WinME machine, connect via ISDN, open up the browser and type that address in: This page cannot be displayed. Apache is up and running and I can connect to it from WinME to Suse via 192.168.1.101 but that's through the Linksys DSL etherfast router connection. What I'd like to do is to give some one my IP address and have them type that in and connect to my running Apache. The only thing I can think of now is I need to mask the true IP address somehow. Eric