> I'm using a suse9.1 box with iptables as router/dump for the other > machines of mine. custom firewall/nat settings are done by a script that > is linked by 'rc3.d'. are you sure the script is running at boot? do you see your "echo" statements output to the screen? i have a firewall on suse 9.0 on which i had to link my firewall startup script in to /etc/init.d/rc2.d. just a thought... -j