> Would it not make more sense to run the servers on the remote machine? > The sytem you describe would be unnecessarily fragile. i understand your concern; neither machines run anything critical though. i'm just tinkering for the sake of tinkering really (and to perhaps learn something new). cheers, g -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html