Andrew Burgess wrote: well, you never know which ports to expect. this makes portmapped services basically useless through firewalls and very hard if not impossible to tunnel. any service that uses the portmapper is limited to single subnets in practice, preferably trusted ones. -- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Germany http://spunk.dnsalias.org (my server) http://www.linuxaudiodev.org (Linux Audio Developers)