Ok first off let me say that I am not an experienced coder/scripter That being said this script I put together does the very basics of what I would like to see. It sort of emulates a daemon like a approach in which the iptables -vxnL (doesn't do NAT yet) command is looped in combination with sleep to achieve a semi real time monitoring. Like I said I'm not a great scripter and I would love the community to pick up on this and mayb sort of port the approach to PHP to work via a web page(of course it would be much need to be much slower than the console). At any rate check it out and feel free to make it your own but please observe the GPL. http://nixn00b.net/iptstat.sh ===== In the absence of order there will be chaos. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com