1. I'm not the asker. Are you responding to my response? 2. Soap box: 90% of documentation fails to live up to it's purpose. With such an overwhelming topic, it can be difficult to get over the first learning hump. Some folks are willing at least to try and help, even if only to give pointers to documentation, and it's counter productive to rag on those people. On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 15:35, Aldo S. Lagana wrote: > Read the Tutorial - anyone who configures a firewall and doesn't know the > firewalling technology that he/she is implementing is asking for problems, > to say the least. > > Google iptables tutorial and spend some time understanding it. > > Soap box: 90% of the questions posed to this group are answered in the > tutorial. It would make this list much less chatty to hear a lot less > questions about people's 'unique' setups...