Hello, Basically I am allowing internet on the firewall as well as nating to 2 clients. I am not able to ssh from the firewall to a client. Though the reverse is working. I would also like to put : -A OUTPUT -j DROP But if I do that clients are not able to connect to the net. I need add a rule which I could not figure out. Please comment and correct. My rules as follows. # Generated by iptables-save v1.3.3 on Sat Jul 22 13:14:10 2006 *nat :OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0] :PREROUTING ACCEPT [0:0] :POSTROUTING ACCEPT [0:0] -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -s 192.168.15.0/24 -j MASQUERADE COMMIT # Completed on Sat Jul 22 13:14:10 2006 # Generated by iptables-save v1.3.3 on Sat Jul 22 13:14:10 2006 *mangle :PREROUTING ACCEPT [80:13056] :INPUT ACCEPT [80:13056] :FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0] :OUTPUT ACCEPT [80:13056] :POSTROUTING ACCEPT [80:13056] COMMIT # Completed on Sat Jul 22 13:14:10 2006 # Generated by iptables-save v1.3.3 on Sat Jul 22 13:14:10 2006 *filter :INPUT ACCEPT [80:13056] -A INPUT -i eth0 -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -p icmp -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -p tcp -i eth0 --dport 80 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -p tcp -i eth0 --dport 53 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -p udp -i eth0 --dport 53 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -i eth1 -p tcp --dport 22 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -i eth1 -p tcp --dport 21 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -j DROP :FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0] :OUTPUT ACCEPT [80:13056] -A FORWARD -i eth0 -o eth1 -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT -A FORWARD -i eth1 -o eth0 -s 192.168.15.5 -j ACCEPT -A FORWARD -i eth1 -o eth0 -s 192.168.15.9 -j ACCEPT -A FORWARD -i eth1 -o eth0 -p tcp --dport 21 -j ACCEPT -A FORWARD -i eth1 -o eth0 -p tcp --dport 25 -j ACCEPT -A FORWARD -i eth1 -o eth0 -p tcp --dport 110 -j ACCEPT -A FORWARD -i eth1 -o eth0 -p tcp --dport 119 -j ACCEPT -A FORWARD -p udp --dport 53 -j ACCEPT -A FORWARD -j DROP -A OUTPUT -j ACCEPT -A OUTPUT -o lo -j ACCEPT COMMIT # Completed on Sat Jul 22 13:14:10 2006 ---------- end rules -------------- Thanks Varun