Hello Everyone I have going to have a lot of traffic on my system in the future. I am logging all the packets in iptables. What I would like to do it is only log the first 20(number is arbitrary) packets. EX. I have an incoming connection from host X to anywhere and I want my firewall to log the first 20 packets. If another connection comes in from host Y the same thing will take place. My goal is to reduce my log file. Also it seems that the 3 packet is the same as the 15 or 20 or 30. Can anyone help me out. Mike