On Monday 17 May 2004 10:55, Dennis Morgan wrote: > ie SEARCH / and a load of escape characters trying to get unauthorised > access. I would like to know if there is a way with netfilter to drop these > packets? At a pinch, you could try the 'string match' module, but it's generally not recommended. More usefully, you should look at http://l7-filter.sourceforge.net/ - writing a little regex for this package to drop the WebDAV SEARCH requests should be trivial. Cheers, Gavin.