>at the 2nd lines of defenses the following is seen: > >date and time is utc. > >2005-06-18 08:20:38.310864 IP 200.221.11.147.29937 > >204.238.34.206.25: R 0:0(0) win 0 This looks to me like tcpdump output. As far as I understand, the "listener" (used by iptraf, tcpdump, etc.) listens before iptables does it works, so you always see packets. - even those which are to be DROPed. Take a client connected to eth2 and listen on the eth2 bus. There should not be anything. >2005-06-18 08:35:33.035504 IP 200.221.11.147.9618 > 204.238.34.206.25: >R 3184482893:3184482893(0) win 64240 >2005-06-18 09:12:47.772699 IP 200.221.11.147.37399 > >204.238.34.206.25: R 0:0(0) win 0 Jan Engelhardt -- | Gesellschaft fuer Wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung Goettingen, | Am Fassberg, 37077 Goettingen, www.gwdg.de