You wrote: > Does anyone know of a way to make say all connections from the outside > going to my outside IP address Appear to be coming from my local lan of > 192.168.0.1 Did you know that this is spoofing ?? So you want to allow spoofing , bad idea. To aproach your problem, I would rather match on MAC address. example: iptables -I INPUT -p all -m mac --mac-source 10:20:30:40:05:06 -m \ state state NEW -j ACCEPT iptables -I OUTPUT -p all -m state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT have fun Pascal