Hello, list. Please be polite to me as well, since I spent the last 3 hours searching the net for possible solutions to my problem: nat does not forward or does something equally awkward to ident queries, even though my firewall rules allow tcp port 113 on my masq'ed machine. I was using the pidentd service which came with Slackware 7.0. After trying out several other identds I discovered that the reason they do not work is the in-existance of /proc/net/ip_masquerade, something which probably was used to read masqueraded connections data in 2.2 branch kernels. I then tried to look for identd servers which support masquerading under 2.4 kernels, but with no success. please help me and don't flame me :P Thankyou. -= Miles Teg -=- Understanding kills ambition; Dominance? Submission! =- ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]