Well, at least for my @home host, cox has decided that I'm not smart enough to filter errant packets by myself. Soo, inbound smtp and www are filtered out. I've run up the support tree to level 2 and even got a special code red coping center hotline, but all of them had zero clue as to actual filtering going on. TOS Compliance Statement: Not that I had a webserver or smtp server mind you, but it's right funny to watch the firewall burn packets. David