First, Many thanks to Joel Newkirk, much appreciated. it works like a champ. I have a concern. When I display using iptables-save I see that though I only have one POSTROUTING statement, there are about 22 of them displayed, all exactly the same. I've tried all kinds of things, but they always come back each load. Is this a bug with iptables-save or could all those redundant statements actually be in the kernel tables? -Del W.