Thanks for your help so far- still no luck with the Host web browser. your very welcome but looking over you iptable that you posted, your missing one very critical piece to the puzzle.... You have to add a line.... Iptables -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT With out this, no packets will be accepted back to the machine. Remember, the request for the web site must be able to come back through the router Michael Floyd