> Sorry, I should have been more clear, I telnet from my test system to > news.giganews.com > > $ telnet news.giganews.com 119 > Trying 216.166.71.230... > Connected to news-central.giganews.com. > Escape character is '^]'. > 200 News.GigaNews.Com (Typhoon v1.2.3) > quit > 205 GoodBye > Connection closed by foreign host. > > And I want to shape incoming nntp traffic (which is why i match sport > 119). That should work. Maybe you can test it for sure with tcpdump to see if the packets are really coming in with sport 119. Stef -- stef.coene@xxxxxxxxx "Using Linux as bandwidth manager" http://www.docum.org/ #lartc @ irc.openprojects.net