When I enabled these rules, but then sendmail (on the same box) started timing out talking to other mail servers. Does anyone see why? # Generated by iptables-save v1.2.7a on Thu Aug 21 14:04:36 2003 *nat :PREROUTING ACCEPT [119808:12963417] :POSTROUTING ACCEPT [20799:1127196] :OUTPUT ACCEPT [28268:1649529] -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE COMMIT # Completed on Thu Aug 21 14:04:36 2003 # Generated by iptables-save v1.2.7a on Thu Aug 21 14:04:36 2003 *mangle :PREROUTING ACCEPT [4394291:2746107050] :INPUT ACCEPT [629207:295924271] :FORWARD ACCEPT [3748994:2446728158] :OUTPUT ACCEPT [700510:360090297] :POSTROUTING ACCEPT [4450703:2807075249] COMMIT # Completed on Thu Aug 21 14:04:36 2003 # Generated by iptables-save v1.2.7a on Thu Aug 21 14:04:36 2003 *filter :INPUT ACCEPT [629180:295921855] :FORWARD ACCEPT [3748994:2446728158] :OUTPUT ACCEPT [700509:360090229] -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 11001:65535 -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-port-unreachable -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 199 -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-port-unreachable -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 111 -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-port-unreachable -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 3306 -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-port-unreachable -A INPUT -i eth0 -p udp -m udp --dport 135:139 -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-port-unreachable -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 135:139 -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-port-unreachable -A FORWARD -i eth0 -m state --state INVALID,NEW -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-port-unreachable -A FORWARD -p 47 -m state --state NEW -i eth1 -o eth0 -j ACCEPT -A FORWARD -p tcp -m state --state NEW --dport 1723 -i eth1 -o eth0 -j ACCEPT -A FORWARD -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT COMMIT # Completed on Thu Aug 21 14:04:36 2003 Thanks, Corey S. Furman Network Administrator Telephone: Email: Work: 1.800.233.7177 Documents: furmanc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cell: 1.570.809.2449 Instant: CoreyFurman@xxxxxxxxxxx _________________________________________________ Warning! Sending me an attachment of these types: .bat .com .exe .htm .html .hta .lnk .url .pif .scr .shs .vbs .vbe .wsf .wsh will send your email to the trash, unread!