that's interesting..(off that URL) "I've been using iptables since RHL 7.0, a bit before that" RedHat 7.0 came with 2.2 kernel... how you get iptables compilable on it?? ;) Thanks, ____________________________________________ George Vieira > -----Original Message----- > From: Tarek W. [mailto:ticallion@xxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Friday, 31 October 2003 11:08 AM > To: netfilter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: thoughts on a newbie tutorial i'll be giving shortly > >