That's what I meant when I said to use with care. He has to figure out the "exact" way the firewall has to be set. If he only used those two rules I wrote before... He'll have jumped into a deep pond of S&/T... so to speak. :-) On 9/16/05, Sai Kiran <saikiranrgda@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > hi, > > don't forget > > iptables -I INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT > > > > > iptables -A INPUT -s 141.225/16 -p tcp -dport 8080 -j ACCEPT > > iptables -P INPUT DROP >