Greg, Thanks, that was the plan once I had gotten around to either looking at a firewall script that someone had done that I could mod for my own purposes or do something else. I had to keep the Ipchains stuff until that time. tnx for the info and I'll check it out On Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 12:40:24PM -0500, Gregory Nowak wrote: > My recommendation would be to drop ipchains and go for iptables. I use the endoshield script for my firewall, and found that it is very flexible, easy to set up, expandable, and works very well. > http://endoshield.sourceforge.net > Greg >