Heh. From what I know, internet sharing on a windows box is not the same as packet forwarding. It is actually NATing your packets - do a tcpdump to verify. This would mean that the box behind the w2k machine could get out fine, but no one from the other side could reach it directly. If I remember correctly, there used to be "forward between interfaces" or such option on NT, perhaps W2k has the same. I checked on my box here and couldn't find it, but that could be because it only has 1 interface. -dallas