Someone turned me on to this and thanks. I do have a couple of questions on something I'd like to do. If someone who is familiar with iptables and this script could drop me a note and would be willing to answer my questions, I'd appreciate it. The most important question, but not the only is how to add ports such as the ones used for the reflector. i do have a Debian specific question. For the purposes of turning packet forwarding on, which would be the best place to place that command. Which script would be best. I see little point in making it a script itself, but perhaps that would be best. tnx