On Sat, 2004-09-11 at 20:26, Darren Kirby wrote: > I will look into this. I assume however that I would need to keep port 23 open > for everyone on the public side for this to work. I was hoping to drop the > packets from everyone except my notebook, hence the original question. Is > there no way to do this? if you're looking for a secure way to manage your firewall from the internet without allowing "-s 0/0 --dport 22" type access; you probably want to setup some sort of VPN access for yourself. openvpn ( http://openvpn.sourceforge.net/ ) is a very nice option for this. -j -- Jason Opperisano <opie@xxxxxxxxxxx>