On Thursday 01 April 2004 15:22, Luca Rossi wrote: > Hi > is true that wins is not supported that Iptables? RFC1001 [1] WINS, which is what Microsoft implement [2], is an application level protocol that uses TCP or UDP, therefore there is no such notion that netfilter does or doesn't "support" it. It uses ports the same as any other protocol so can be filtered in exactly the same way. David 1 - http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1001.html 2 - http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/en/server/help/default.asp?url=/windows2000/en/server/help/sag_WINS_ovr_WhatIs.htm