Well I gave up on my attempt to build up an old laptop with Debian for use as my firewall. I resorted to a stripped-down Mandrake 8.2 and had it up and running in an hour. Anyways, after hearing many recommendations for gShield on this list, I decided to give it a try and it's working great. I have one question, though. Is there any way that I could see the iptables rules that gShield is creating? I am not incredibly well-versed in iptables and would like to take a glance at this code. Hopefully I'll learn something. My reason for asking this is that I need to add one last iptables rule to allow ssh connections from my LAN to eth1 (the internal interface) on the firewall. Thanks! -Erik -- Erik Anderson - erik at andersonfam.org