I dont know what the problem was, things seem to work now without issues. Maybe last time I might have broken something as it's likely I set/unset since it was my first time starting to mess with iptables with a script. Thanks for the replies though. Bart > > Is there something about the internal workings of iptables I should > > know, or is this meant for the Debian, or general Linux help mailing > > list?? I attempted restarting my networking scripts but it failed on > > DHCP init. > > Unless you received an error when executing the commands above, there > should be no problem. Maybe it's something with the router ; there's not > too much troubleshooting information. > > > Gr, > Rob > > >