>> "AS" == Adam Schrader <schrader2k2@xxxxxxxxx> writes: AS> how can i filter for a range of ports? I have seen people use AS> 1024:32000 when saying from port 1024 to 32000 but tc doesnt AS> accept this? can somebody tell me how i can do this? -thanks iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 1024:65535 -j ACCEPT Should do what you want. iptables is very limited in defining ranges, multiple hosts and similar ranges compares to ipfw2. I hope this will change sometime in the future since it would highly simplify the definitions of large rulesets. /ahnberg.