<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Hi there, I am trying to figure out how to open a port temporarily for a specific IP who is able to provide a proper username and password on a webform delivered by my web server. After authentication is verified then the IP address is cached and temporarily allowed to access a specific port on the server. These temporary firewall changes are to be handled by ipfw. Any clues if a system like this is a already coded and out there somewhere? Cheers, Noah </body> </html>