On Thursday 01 April 2004 11:29 pm, Jorge Garcia wrote: > iptables its on my computer but not only me uses it. > so, i want a set of rules for allowing my computer only to access to web > pages how can i do this?? iptables -P INPUT DROP iptables -P OUTPUT DROP iptables -P FORWARD DROP iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT iptables -A OUTPUT -p udp --dport 53 -j ACCEPT iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp --dport 53 -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT Obviously you may need to add extra rules to the OUTPUT chain if you want to allow access to ports other than 80 - 8000 and 8080 are not too uncommon, for example. Regards, Antony. -- "The joy of X!!?? I've always hated compiling graphical shite. You have a 10 line program, and it ends up depending on the entire known universe." - Philip Hands Please reply to the list; please don't CC me.