On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, XingFei wrote: > I know Iptables is a upgraded packet filtering utility with linux2.4 > but I don't know whether it can fulfill the functions of so-called > Stateful Inspecton firewall. It can. See http://netfilter.samba.org/ for more information. c'ya sven -- The Internet treats censorship as a routing problem, and routes around it. (John Gilmore on http://www.cygnus.com/~gnu/) - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org