i agree. my only question is will this work in linux 2.4? i used to work with bsd systems which were all nat based, and while i could manually configure forwarding for a single system, i couldn't do anything similar to what linux 2.2's irc or ftp modules allow. at home i still run 2.2 on my server, so i haven't really played around with 2.4 ip routing stuff. still, such a module would be *very* welcome :)