Thank you for the help Aaron, I will post shortly. One question though. On connect I am given the handshake above, which doesn't give the BearShare client enough time to verify if I am behind a firewall or not. If you look at the handshake above, it gives out all 6346/6348 addresses in its x-tries. Are you saying that BearShare will give out BearShare xtries and BearShare pings until it verifies that you are not firewalled and once it verifies that you are not firewalled it will give out all others?

Thanks,

Randy