Hi "netmaster", You can do it, but it takes a bit of extra work because of the design of FTP. Also, this is in the FAQ. See Stef's FAQ entry for it! http://www.docum.org/stef.coene/qos/faq/cache/43.html Or, if you prefer to click forty more times, an old thread with pointers to other threads..... http://mailman.ds9a.nl/pipermail/lartc/2003q1/007548.html Ciao, -Martin : -> I've a Linux Box that I want to apply a filter : -> in order to limit FTP salient traffic from my : -> linux box to internet. "FTP salient traffic" I like that. :) <much detail snipped and ignored> -- Martin A. Brown --- SecurePipe, Inc. --- mabrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx