Thanks for the detailed explanations.

I'll try to test it right from the BES (using an SSH client to this outside host on 443), that's a good suggestion.

FYI: I CAN get to my outside host on port 443 with an SSH client from my desktop PC which is proxied and behind numerous firewalls (I do have to tell the app, Putty, to connect to the proxy and login in order to have it talk to the outside world).

Mark - I'd love to go direct and bypass the BES but as you know my Bell 7250 has no TCP/IP stack available at this time. This is a shame since it would be very useful to have this available.

Regards,
field172.