RTFM Man swoops in and then quickly flies out leaving only a small trace of his presence, a single URL: http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/IP-Masquerade.html (OK maybe two more the Linux Documentation (http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/index.html) project is your friend as is Google's linux search (http://www.google.com/linux) -- Jonathan