On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, root wrote: > I have seted up rules for SMTP and FTP server on a firewall and they work > exept that I should whait 10 and more seconds before to get a responce from > the server. > I tryed to log all droped packates to see if there are some packtes which are > related to smtp (or ftp) connection but there any. This is probably an identd issue. If you create a rule to REJECT identd packets instead of dropping them, this should help. -- Andrew M. Greenburg | agreenbu @ in-span . net Systems Engineer | (317)234-1001 (317)234-1328 Indiana Web Academy | Phone Fax