You might look at http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/~julian/nano.txt - you can forget about the kernel patches and remove "proto static" where it appears in the examples and still have a general solution for your situation. On the other hand, you could just follow the whole thing, if you're comfortable patching you kernel. The January 2002 SysAdmin had a good article on a very similar setup. (http://www.samag.com/articles/2002/0201/ - but the article's not online.) Whit