Someone else posted about this problem not too long ago, but there never was a resolution to it. I just set up a new firewall, and my SSH sessions keep dropping. I am using port forwarding (ipmasqadmn portfw) to send port 22->10.0.0.25:22 Also, I set the timeouts on ipchains to 4 hours. Everything seems fine for the most part, but it seems that when I fire up vi it drops me in a matter of minutes. I thought it had been happening at random, but I can constantly drop my connection by using vi. I think it also happens at other times. Does anyone know what might be causing this? I know vi cant be causing the disconnect, and I have been able to keep some sessions using vi, so it is not 100% of the time, but it sure is a lot of the time. Any other ideas to help fix this? Jay -- Jay Kline list at slushpupie.com http://www.slushpupie.com/