I am using freebsd 5.4 stable. SSH is working fine in normal environment but as soon i plug a firewall in front of freebsd box ssh stop working. I have allowed tcp 22 for my freebsd box and the rule is working if I replace the machine to linux box but dont know why ssh is not working on freebsd. i am also geeting an error in /var/log/meesages SSH port bind error tcp port 22 is already used by another application. But I have checked no appliction s using it as soon I remove the firewall ssh sart working and the error also gone. I also allowed tcp 722 (read in an article) but it dont effect me. In problem I only got ssh login prompt as soon I enter the username the screen stcuk. How can I resolve the issue. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com