I have only been using two out of the tree ports omn my pix 515 for the past three years. I have decided to set up a dmz and have enabled the third port with a security level of 50. The interface is assigned 192.168.50.1. My inside network is 192.168.100.0. I have applied basic access lists to the dmz to alow ip and icmp traffic. Heres my question: I am new to the dmz and was under the impression that servers residing on the dmz would not be able to initiate traffic without static mappings to servers on the inside. However, My server on the dmz is able to see my AD domain on the inside as well as join the domain. I can also launch a remote desktop session from my server in the dmz to a server on the inside with just the basic config I mentioned above. The DMZ is responding differently then what I expected and it seems to me that it is just acting like a router and I do not see any security benefit. Can someone please explain what is really happening. Thanks.