Hello, I wish to understand the following in the iptables file. I see the following the entries : # 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] # Completed on Tue Apr 26 14:50:01 2005 # Generated by iptables-save v1.2.9 on Tue Apr 26 14:50:01 2005 *mangle :PREROUTING ACCEPT [707:100355] :INPUT ACCEPT [704:99811] :FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0] :OUTPUT ACCEPT [541:74129] :POSTROUTING ACCEPT [611:85191] # Completed on Tue Apr 26 14:50:01 2005 # Generated by iptables-save v1.2.9 on Tue Apr 26 14:50:01 2005 *filter :FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0] :INPUT DROP [0:0] :OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0] What do you entries like " OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0] " signify or represent. Thanks Varun