On Sunday 28 March 2004 11:49 am, IT Clown wrote: > Hi > > I have just finished reading netfilter howto and im just > over halfway with Oskar Andreasson's tutorial.Here is my > rule again does this look correct? You should be using the "-m state --state=ESTABLISHED,RELATED" match in your INPUT chain to allow in replies to packets which went out, btu not to allow new connections from outside (especially to any service on the firewall). See Chapter 4 of Oskar's tutorial. Regards, Antony. -- Anyone that's normal doesn't really achieve much. - Mark Blair, Australian rocket engineer Please reply to the list; please don't CC me.