Thanks to all who responded directly. All referred to the command: echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward which was the answer I was looking for, since I didn't want to do any firewalling or ip_masquerading. I knew that setting the flag was all that was needed in AIX (though done differently) and hoped it would be that simple in Linux, but couldn't find it in the books, or the ethernet or routing howto's. Also go Apache installed and running for the first time. Very basically, and surprisingly simple, but still something new for me. Drew