As I try to solve my problems with iptables, nat and traffic shaping (with ip accounting thrown intot he mix) a friend of mine just sent this claim. Is it true? Will I have to step back to ipchains, or is there a way to force packets through the traffic shaping filters using iptables? > If you are using iptables, you MUST forget it, or change to > ipchains, because > masq is done by nat table, and shaping is done by mangle table. I > cannot found > any way to drive the packet 1. thru nat, than mangle, instead of > using OUTPUT > and FORWARD. -- Aaron Clausen