Please forgive me for I am new to all this and have been curious about this topic for some time. I am running rh6.1 on 3 boxes on a private network behind a single box running ipchains/portsentry on a public ip (cable modem) The firewall box has 2 nic's one for my public ip address and one for my private network ip address (192.168.X.X). I am the sole user of any box on the private network. My question is if I am going to telneting from a box on my private network network to the private nic on my firewall do I need ssh? And can some one sniff these packets from outside my private network? TIA Steve -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.