Hello Folks, Just want to find the real answer with this. sorry but ans to google is not clear for me. I did upgrade my iptables to iptables-1.2.9rc1.tar. steps done; --> installed new iptables source (iptables-1.2.9rc1.tar) - make KERNEL_DIR=/usr/local/linux - make install KERNEL_DIR=/usr/local/linux --> applied POM (patch-o-matic-20030912.tar) to my latest kernel (linux-2.4.22.tar) --> recompile the kernel - make dep; make clean; make bzImage; make modules; make modules_install - all went fine --> reboot the machine all went fine but when NAT/MASQUERADE is used, i got this "iptables: invalid argument" anything i missed? Thanks. -JP