Hello, I have two firewalls using linux-HA so one is always master the other slave. The monitoring in done over a serial cable. The slave box does not accept any network traffic until it becomes master except for ssh on the internal side. I know that /proc/net/ip_conntrack is where all the established or related connections are kept. What I want to know if anyone has any idea how to keep the state on the second box so NO connections will be lost if a fail over occurs. I was thinking that I could use DRBD on the /proc/net directory so it always writes to the master slave. But I then thought it would fail because the kernel can not write to that directory ... but the second box is not doing any network traffic so.... ????? -- Hand over the Slackware CD's and back AWAY from the computer, your geek rights have been revoked !!! Michael Gale Slackware user :) Bluesuperman.com