O.K., I've worked through my "silent death" zorpctl problem -- thanks Szalay! The problem there was that the versions of libzorpll and in http://www.balabit.com/downloads/zorp/2.1/deb/ are mismatched (zorp was looking for an older library-file). I uninstalled my debs, and installed the ones in /zorp/2.0/deb. New problem: when I try to start Zorp, it still fails, but it writes the following (among other things) to /var/log/messages: logging "Binding to dummy interface failed, please create one and pass --autobind-ip parameter; autobind=''192.168.1.1'' " This is what instances.conf looks like: blue -v 5 -p /etc/zorp/policy.py -B '192.168.1.1' purple -v 5 -p /etc/zorp/policy.py -B '192.168.1.1' red -v 5 -p /etc/zorp/policy.py -B '192.168.1.1' Question: does dummy0 need to be set up in /etc/networking/interfaces? Or is something else wrong here? Thanks, Mick /-------------------------------------------------\ | Michael D. (Mick) Bauer | | Hired Goon Specializing in Information Security | | Security Editor, Linux Journal | | Dir. of Value-Subtracted Svcs., Wiremonkeys.org | \-------------------------------------------------/