Good Day ..... I have a question regarding marked packets in the FORWARD mangle table....... suppose i have ....... iptables -A FORWARD -t mangle -i eth1 -p tcp --dport 1863 -j MARK --set-mark 0x1 then if i do : ip ru add fwmark 0x1 table 1 ip ro add default via w.x.y.z table 1 and my default gw is a.b.c.d ..... packets will continue to go through a.b.c.d ..... it seems that only routing decisions takes place only in PREROUTING mangle table for marked packets ...... Regards !!!!! __________________________________________________________________ Faysal Banna ICQ#: 213953617 Current ICQ status: + More ways to contact me Get ICQ! __________________________________________________________________