Hi, I've been running RH 7.2 with a kernel-2.4.9-13brnf0.0.3 for a very long time and works just fine. A couple of weeks ago I thought I'd install a new fresh installation with rh9 and load the bridge module that comes with the rh kernel ( 2.4.20-24.9 ). The bridge itself works just fine but the firewalling dont. There is no packets passing the FORWARD chain... Have I missed something really essential here? The same iptable script works just fine on the old box... Thanks in advance bridge name bridge id STP enabled interfaces br0 8000.0002b332cd6a yes eth0 eth1 Chain FORWARD (policy DROP 0 packets, 0 bytes) pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination 0 0 SGI3K all -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 SOMEIPADD 0 0 ACCEPT icmp -- eth0 * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 icmp type 0 limit: avg 3/sec burst 5 0 0 ACCEPT icmp -- eth0 * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 icmp type 3 0 0 ACCEPT icmp -- eth0 * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 icmp type 4 0 0 ACCEPT icmp -- eth0 * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 icmp type 11 0 0 ACCEPT icmp -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 icmp type 8 limit: avg 3/sec burst 5 0 0 ACCEPT tcp -- eth0 eth1 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 tcp dpt:113 0 0 ACCEPT all -- eth1 eth0 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 0 0 LOG all -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 LOG flags 0 level 4 prefix `FORWARD chain po -- Håkan Stensby E-mail: hst(at)nsc(dot)liu(dot)se