Joel Rees wrote: > The third company is limiting ssh by IP. and: > Oh, I get the same results from my Mac boxes at home, so now I'm > pretty sure the problem is not with the FC settings. Are you sure that the third company has opened SSH for your home IP address? Oh yes: don't forget that there are potentially two sets of firewalls to blame: the ones at your site and the ones at theirs. Firewalls can be used (and are used) to block outbound traffic as well as inbound. James. -- E-mail address: james | "I would like to apologise to the relatives of the fan @westexe.demon.co.uk | who gave me 29 books to sign in Odyssey 7, Manchester. | I'm a little twitchy towards the end of a day of | signing and did not mean to kill and eat him." | -- Terry Pratchett.