A few questions I have after I installed Debian Potato 2.2r4 for a firewall/gateway machine: 1) How do I get the second NIC card up for my external IP address? I know it's something similar to this: " ifconfig eth1 address <IP#> netmask <mask #> broadcast <bc#> " Also, how do I get it to stay in case the system needs to be rebooted? Do I add it to rc.local? 2) For ip-chains and ip-filter, what packages do I need to install? Someone mentioned it once before, but I haven't had a chance to dig through the archives to try and find it. Also, I saw some of these options when I first started the install, but I wasn't exactly certain as to which one I needed, so I left it alone and didn't select any. I have some other questions as well, but I'll wait until I get these things figured out first. I'm also reading the "Learning Debian GNU/Linux" book by O'Reilly but it's taking some time to get through it all as well.... Thanks for any help I can get on this. My apologies for being some simple questions that I or someone have asked before. Unfortunately, I haven't had the chance to go through the archives to search. Shawn