Beartooth, Sorry I refered to you as Bearcat earlier. Do you have the command firewall-config? Using the GUI interface would probably be much easier to tell if your firewall is allowing ssh traffic through than with iptables. Jon -- Jon H. LaBadie novalugml@jgcomp.com 11226 South Shore Rd (703) 787-0688 (H) Reston, VA 20190 (609) 477-8330 (C)