I found the following message in my syslog after another machine (running RedHat) connected to mine to send me mail. I am using Debian 2.0 (Hamm). Mar 1 04:26:22 lilypad kernel: MASQ: reverse ICMP: failed checksum from 205.xxx.xxx.xxx! (I have replaced the actual IP address with "x"'s What does this mean? Is it a Hamm bug? thanks -- Andrew ---------------------- PGP Key ID 0x5EE61C37 PGP5.0 ----------------------