Aye, a familiar face. ;-) The 'firewall' in this case, is a transparent proxy server. The proxy server will be the gateway to the internet. I need to allow irc connections through this machine, somehow. I don't know how to do that. Regards, Tim Rainier Antony Stone <Antony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent by: netfilter-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 11/17/2003 10:20 AM To: netfilter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cc: Subject: Re: irc On Monday 17 November 2003 3:15 pm, trainier@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Can anyone tell me how I can initiate an irc connection using iptables? Suggest you initiate an IRC connection using an IRC client :) Netfilter / iptables might be involved in forwarding the packets, but what's the problem? I use IRC through a NAT firewall with nothing special for this particular protocol. Antony. -- Never write it in Perl if you can do it in Awk. Never do it in Awk if sed can handle it. Never use sed when tr can do the job. Never invoke tr when cat is sufficient. Avoid using cat whenever possible. Please reply to the list; please don't CC me.