Hello My server is om Mandrake 10.1 eth0 is WAN with static IP connected to 512K DSL. eth1 is LAN - 192.168.0.0/24. I am doing a masq/nat on eth0 as follows: # Generated by iptables-save v1.2.9 on Tue Apr 26 14:50:01 2005 *nat :OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0] :PREROUTING ACCEPT [0:0] :POSTROUTING ACCEPT [0:0] -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE My subnets are as follows : 192.168.0.0/24 192.168.21.0/24 I would like to allow / deny access to the net to clients based on : 1. client IPs. or 2. client IP + MAC What kind of rules to write Do you start with blocking all IPs and then write the allow rules ? Or directly write filtering rule and automatically others will be rejected? Thanks Varun