On Tuesday 09 March 2004 10:47 am, Kashif Awan wrote: > hello everyone > > i have installed redhat linux AS 2.1 and I was using ipchains as a firewall > > but i need to switch to iptables iptables package is already installed but > i want to install it from scratch can somebody tell me the path of > documentation how to install if from the scratch This seems more like a RedHat question than a netfilter question? How to get the package installed is distribution-specific (unless you just rip everything out and compile from source, but I don't think that's what you're asking?). Maybe someone here knows the answer to your question, but you might be better off asking on an RH AS list, I think. Regards, Antony. -- It is also possible that putting the birds in a laboratory setting inadvertently renders them relatively incompetent. - Daniel C Dennet Please reply to the list; please don't CC me.