> Is proxy arp the way for me to go or is there a better way for me to get > there? Well, I've never used proxy arp, but this can be done with openbsd. You put two NICs in your machine, one for incoming connection, one that goes to a hub/switch for your other machines. Neither of the interfaces needs to use one of your "live" IP addresses. In fact, I don't think they need IPs at all. OpenBSD has a device called bridge0 that you would tell IPF to use. It's not a simple task and will require quite a bit of reading. But once you've got it up, it's a perfectly transparent bridge. You tell IPF which packets you want to throw away and it does so as they come across the line. I love having machines that people can ssh into, but can't ping. :) Now, OpenBSD isn't your only solution. The exact same thing can be accomplished in Free and NetBSD as well, and I believe in Linux too, though I haven't played with bridging in Linux. I thought someone mentioned it maybe a month or so ago... Did you check the archives? Gabe -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gabe Turner gabe at msi.umn.edu SGI Origin Systems Administrator, University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute for Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation www.msi.umn.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------