On Monday 12 July 2004 7:49 pm, Payal Rathod wrote: > Hi, > If I want to design a firewall for a network on a high end machine > with lot of RAM and swap, is there any real use of user defined > chains? I find them difficult so I would like to use only the built-in > chains. Is that ok? Yes. Antony. (Okay, for a fuller answer, use user-defined chains if you want to, don't use them if you prefer - it makes no difference to netfilter so long as you can understand the rules enough to get them to do what you want them to.) -- Users don't know what they want until they see what they get. Please reply to the list; please don't CC me.