I'd love it if someone could explain this to me: bittorrent works fine for me on FC2, and it did on FC1 and RHL9, and I've always used redhat|system-config-securitylevel and have never added any extra workarounds to open up ports 6881-6889. So how come bittorrent works at all? Admittedly I don't always get the greatest download speeds with it, but I thought that was more to do with slow seeders, or too many leachers and not enough seeders or something. I certainly have on occasion got download speeds that have maxed out my DSL connection. Relatedly, as you both appear to be using system-config-securitylevel, how did you add the extra rules for ports 6881-6889? TIA. Best, Darren -- ===================================================================== D. D. Brierton darren@xxxxxxxxxxx www.dzr-web.com Trying is the first step towards failure (Homer Simpson) =====================================================================