Hello, My server is on Mandriva 10.1 eth0 is WAN with static IP connected to 512K DSL eth1 is LAN - 192.168.0.0/24 and 192.168.21.0/24 My rules are as follows : # Generated by iptables-save v1.2.9 on Fri Jan 7 20:56:35 2000 *nat :OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0] :PREROUTING ACCEPT [0:0] :POSTROUTING ACCEPT [0:0] -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE COMMIT # Completed on Fri Jan 7 20:56:35 2000 # Generated by iptables-save v1.2.9 on Fri Jan 7 20:56:35 2000 *mangle :PREROUTING ACCEPT [1024:195745] :INPUT ACCEPT [1019:194076] :FORWARD ACCEPT [2:144] :OUTPUT ACCEPT [1000:192114] :POSTROUTING ACCEPT [999:192086] COMMIT # Completed on Fri Jan 7 20:56:35 2000 # Generated by iptables-save v1.2.9 on Fri Jan 7 20:56:35 2000 *filter :FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0] :INPUT DROP [0:0] :OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0] -A INPUT -s 127.0.0.1 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp -i eth1 --dport 3128 --sport 1024:65535 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -p udp -m udp -i eth1 --dport 3128 --sport 1024:65535 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -s 62.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 -i eth0 -j REJECT -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp -s 217.81.0.0/255.255.0.0 -i eth0 -j REJECT -A INPUT -i eth0 -j DROP -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp -i eth1 --sport 80 -j DROP -A INPUT -m state -i eth1 --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT -A FORWARD -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT -A FORWARD -p tcp -i eth1 -o eth0 --dport 25 --sport 1024: -j ACCEPT --syn -A FORWARD -p tcp -i eth1 -o eth0 --dport 110 --sport 1024: -j ACCEPT --syn -A FORWARD -p tcp -i eth1 -o eth0 --dport 1863 --sport 1024: -j ACCEPT --syn -A FORWARD -p tcp -i eth1 -o eth0 --dport 5050 --sport 1024: -j ACCEPT --syn -A OUTPUT -p udp --dport 53 --sport 1024: -j ACCEPT COMMIT # Completed on Fri Jan 7 20:56:35 2000 Now one problem got solved after chaging but another has started because of that. -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp -i eth1 --dport 3128 --sport 1024:65535 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -p udp -m udp -i eth1 --dport 3128 --sport 1024:65535 -j ACCEPT Originally sport was set to : --sport 80 I changed to : --sport 1024:65535 after corrections from Jason. Now I think my mail are not going through which I think is because " 1024 ". Please correct me if I am wrong. The squid part makes me happy but not the mail part. What corrections need to be made. Thanks in advance Varun