hmm .. i suppose that is right as well .... Any thoughts on my last question ? Thanks again, Peter ----- Original Message ----- From: "Antony Stone" <Antony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <netfilter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 3:06 PM Subject: Re: ftp On Thursday 27 May 2004 6:59 pm, Peter Marshall wrote: > I actually don't need the dnat as I have internet routable ip's in my dmz > .... Thank you for the info. My question now is, will your rule take care > of both passive and active ftp ? I would prefer to just use active .. but > I know many clients would have their own issues .. grr .. stupid ftp .... ip_conntrack_ftp does handle both passive and active ftp. Obviously if you're not doing DNAT then you don't need the ip_nat_ftp module either. Regards, Antony. -- Software development can be quick, high quality, or low cost. The customer gets to pick any two out of three. Please reply to the list; please don't CC me.