M. Harris and Carl, the machine was configured to use dhcp for its ip, he has no problem getting connected. They set that part up for him, I want to be able to open the firewall and allow me to ssh into his computer as he has a sound driver issue and it would be easier for me to fix it than explain it to him. I am sure that his machine would give up the default gateway with ifconfig, but I would like to be able to talk him through the menus and options to change his firewall configuration in the modem. Thank you for the dslreports link, I forgot about them. John -- Registered Linux User 263680, get counted at http://counter.li.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org