On Fri, January 13, 2006 11:28, Bjørn wrote: > Britto <britto_antony@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> Hi Bjorn, > > Stop top posting. Keep replies on-list. > >> What rule should i add in the OUTPUT chain? > > What about the below advice was so hard to grasp? I guess the -A OUTPUT -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT part. Or just (re)set the OUTPUT policy to ACCEPT. If you don't know how to deal with it, it just get's in your way. I would say : read Oskars manual : http://iptables-tutorial.frozentux.net/iptables-tutorial.html Gr, Rob >> > Hint: Check out the ESTABLISHED and RELATED states. >> > When you >> > understand what they do, use them in your output >> > rules.