On Friday 02 January 2004 7:07 pm, Ramoni wrote: > Hi, > can iptables do a temp rule ? > I mean, I need to create rules that will be deleted after x seconds or > minutes. The time module does not remove the rules as it is not supposed to > do so. Is there a module that I could say: > iptables -I FORWARD -s a.b.c.d -j DROP -m xxxxx --minutes 2 > and the rule will be deleted after 2 minutes os something like that ? No. Use cron, at, or sleep. Antony. -- Your work is both good and original. Unfortunately the parts that are good aren't original, and the parts that are original aren't good. - Samuel Johnson Please reply to the list; please don't CC me.