hello everyone, This is my problem: As a gateway in my network is a PC with Linux ( Slackware 8.1 ), and also on this machine is installed MRTG that listen for SNMP. I want to use SNMP only in local ( internal ) network. I know that SNMP use 161 and 162 port. There are no problems with comunication between Linux machine and local hosts via SNMP. BUT: the problem is when MRTG try to receive SNMP information from this same machine that is installed ( MRTG is installed on Linux machine - gateway). I dont know why because i set: iptables -A INPUT -i eth1 -p tcp -m multiport --dport 21,80,161,3128 -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -i eth1 -p udp -m multiport --dport 80,67,161 -j ACCEPT ...and it should resolve problem...but it wont !!!!!THIS IS IMPORTANT!!!! when I set all INPUT ACCETP then it works. So there is no problem with snmp and MRTG but with my iptables config :/ I use: NET-SNMP version: 5.0.7 iptables v1.2.6a This is my iptables config: insmod ip_conntrack insmod ip_conntrack_ftp iptables -P FORWARD DROP iptables -P INPUT DROP iptables -P OUTPUT ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -m multiport --dport 22 -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -i eth1 -p tcp -m multiport --dport 21,80,161,3128 -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -i eth1 -p udp -m multiport --dport 80,67,161 -j ACCEPT iptables -A FORWARD -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT iptables -A FORWARD -i eth1 -p tcp -m multiport --dport 21,22,25,110,1111,6112 -j ACCEPT iptables -A FORWARD -i eth1 -p udp -m multiport --dport 53,6112,13073,23083,23073 -j ACCEPT iptables -I INPUT -p icmp --icmp-type echo-request -s 0.0.0.0/0 -m limit --limit 1/s -j ACCEPT iptables -I INPUT -p icmp --icmp-type echo-request -s 0.0.0.0/0 -j DROP #===NAT================================================================================= modprobe iptable_nat iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o ppp0 -j MASQUERADE echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward Will be thankful for any good advice -- Best regards,