Hi I have the following rules to allow traffic on SMTP port. -------------------- iptables -A INPUT -i $EXTERNAL_IF -p tcp --destination-port 25 -j LOG \ --log-level 4 --log-prefix "Incoming Mail Traffic " iptables -A INPUT -i $EXTERNAL_IF -p tcp --destination-port 25 -j ACCEPT -------------------- The default policy is on the INPUT chain is to drop the packets. How do I capture what is being dropped? My goal is to log the inbound traffic and my syslog has the following configuration: -------------------- *.=info;*.=notice;mail.none /usr/adm/messages *.=alert /usr/adm/messages *.=crit /usr/adm/debug mail.* /var/log/mail-log kern.* /var/log/messages user.* /var/log/messages syslog.* /var/log/messages auth.* /var/log/messages authpriv.* /var/log/messages -------------------- Is this configuration sufficient to capture the inbound connections? -- Subba Rao subba9@cablespeed.com