\_ SMTP quoth Austin Godber on 6/10/2003 16:40 as having spake thusly: \_ \_ It may be important to note that oftentimes the same software \_ accomplishes both of these things though. Actually, often one piece of \_ software handles all three, NAT, portforwading, and firewalling. For, \_ instance PF in openBSD does this. I suppose IPTABLES does as well. Yup, it does. David