People... What do you all think about make rules for new connections only ? Make all rules for new connections (--syn) and let the -m state --state ESTABLISHED care about connectuions you have allowed ? I' ll aplly a poatch on my firewall to support the raw table, to use the NOTRACK targe for cionnections that I does not need to track (and ensure a connection response) for example: A connection from outside to my webserver, will always come from random port to port 80 of my server, and the response will be from port80 to any port outsdie. Whats the really need to track this ? I can make rules allowing these and just make connectinio tracking for connections from inside to outside that I wont make rules expecting the response. Sorry for the bad english, as usually. Ramoni