On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 07:37:22AM +0200, Brent Clark wrote: > Hi all > > I was wondering, if was adviseable to set the default policy for tables > nat and mangle to DROP. no. *all* packets traverse the filter chains--do your filtering there. this question seems to come up every so often, and the idea is absolutely indefensible, IMHO. -j -- "Tom Tucker: And now time for the Ollie weather report. Ollie: It's gonna rain. Tom Tucker: Thanks Ollie." --Family Guy