I'm setting up a simple bridge firewall, and I've managed to get the bridging working properly. However, every time I attempt to create a firewall rule to prevent packets from traversing the FORWARD chain, I notice that, at least according to "iptables -L -vX", no packets are going across that particular chain. Any idea why this might be happening? I can implement rules on both the INPUT and OUTPUT chains and they work as expected, but for some reason nothing will display on the FORWARD chain. The bridging folks seem to think that it's an issue with iptables, not with the bridging code. Thanks in advance if anyone has seen this or knows how to deal with it. eol, Reed reed wiedower reed.wiedower@peyser.com peyser.com 202.638.3730x115