Paul, I finally gave up on trying to configure a simple bridge and used firestarter instead. The problem I ran into with the simple bridge approach is that my external network access is through a Linksys WMP54-G wireless card using ndiswrapper. While this works great for the external network access, it doesn't support promicuous mode making it impossible to access the DNS servers from the internal bridged network. Firestarter avoids this problem since it is a gateway using NAT. Jack