This might be a duplicate post - I sent the first from the wrong email account. Anyway, I have this script below: #!/bin/bash #------------------------------- # updated RC.FIREWALL script # with supposed FTP support? HELP! #------------------------------- # enable ip_forwarding echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward # added for Passive FTP Compatibility /sbin/modprobe ip_conntrack_ftp /sbin/modprobe ip_nat_ftp # Flush tables iptables -F iptables -t nat -F # Set Default policies iptables -P INPUT ACCEPT iptables -P OUTPUT ACCEPT iptables -P FORWARD ACCEPT iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE iptables -A FORWARD -i eth0 -o eth1 -j ACCEPT iptables -A FORWARD -i eth1 -o eth0 -j ACCEPT BLOCKT="1:1024 5900 5900 2301 2381 3372 5000 1433 1801 2103:2105 3146" BLOCKU="1:1024 2301 2381 3372 1900 1434 3145 3527" iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 110 -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 25 -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 443 -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 53 -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 20:22 -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 308 -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 90 -j ACCEPT # BLOCK BAD TCP for BT in $BLOCKT; do iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp --dport $BT -j DROP; done # BLOCK BAD UDP for BU in $BLOCKU; do iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp --dport $BU -j DROP; done # END OF SCRIPT It's pretty basic, and I know its not really too secure, but I am trying to narrow down this FTP passive problem. I can login to passive FTP servers, but it hangs at 'ls'. Is there something else in my script that I need to add to get ftp-data to respond correctly ? Thanks in advance, Chris