You can have port 8080 open and still have the firewall block access to the the port from extrnal machines. You really neeed to find out if a firewall is running. I don't use Gentoo (I run Fedore Core 5), so I am not sure the best way to find that out. Also, there are command-line HTTP clients that you can use to browse web sites. You only get text back, but it would be enough to show that JBoss is processing http requests. Perhaps you could try one of those. (I don't recall the name(s) of the http client, that was one of the installation options I turned off when I installed Fedora.) View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3977980#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...