I''ve just discovered a bug in Blacklisting in the Beta 2 code which can cause the firewall to fail to start. The ''firewall'' file in the ''Shorewall'' CVS branch corrects this problem when installed in /usr/lib/shorewall/*. -Tom -- Tom Eastep \ Shorewall - iptables made easy Shoreline, \ http://shorewall.sf.net Washington USA \ teastep@shorewall.net