I know I've read everywhere that its impossible to get the external clients ip address, but is this really really true !!! We have ip recognition software on our web server, and we have just published the web server and obviously its only recognising the internal ip address of the firewall ( arrrrrgggghhhh ) HELP !! Paul Crisp Snr Network Support Analyst Tel No : 020 7 827 5201 Fax No: 020 8 330 7051