Hello all. I have spent rather a lot of time trying to find an answer for this one. I have a Slackware Linux box, 2.4.29 kernel running IP Tables. I have the bare number of needed modules compiled into the custom kernel. I start IP Tables using the following batch file: iptables -P INPUT DROP iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --destination-port 22 -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --destination-port 25 -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --destination-port 53 -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -p udp --destination-port 53 -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --destination-port 80 -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --destination-port 110 -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --destination-port 443 -j ACCEPT This works except it makes webpages and email served from this box SLOW to respond. (Several seconds). Any ideas please? Questions welcomed. Michael Hallager networkStuff ltd www.networkstuff.co.nz | p.09.839.1000 | m.029.638.7883
