Hi, My name is Peter Marshall. I am having some problems letting ftp through my firewall without opening all of the ports. I was trying to get RELATED to work, but for some reason it will not. Here is an example of what my file looks like $TABLENAME -A FORWARD -d x.x.x.x -o eth2 -j mychain $TABLENAME -A mychain -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT $TABLENAME -A mychain -j DROP I don't think I need the ESTABLISHED, but I put it in anyways. If anyone could help it would be greatly appriciated. Thanks Peter Marshall PS. Sorry if te message appears twice. I sent it the first tiem before I became a member