I realize this isn't really a Win2K question but that's what I run so I thought I'd stick my post here. Here goes.... I run an SMC Router in front of my cable modem. I originally decided to set a Client Filter to block AIM port 5190 between certain hours of the day so that my 15 year old goes to bed at a reasonable hour. :-) Recently though they figured out that if they established an aim "direct connection" prior to the client filter start time they could stay connected. Well I've searched high and low with Google and have read many different suggestions about aim ports to block. 5190 by itself obviously isn't doing the trick. I've seen suggestions for blocking 4443 but according to the official list of port numbers at http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers, 4443 isn't even used by aol? pharos 4443/tcp Pharos pharos 4443/udp Pharos Does anyone know what ALL of the legitimate ip ports are for AIM? Thanks for the help. Mark

Sorry Mark, but there are too many ports that AOL uses to round robin to different connections. The best way I have heard is to block the IP addresses that AOL has for AIM. Theres about 5 or 6 of them. Jake