Hi everybody, I use NAT since 2003 on a little home LAN. Recently after my old firewall died I replaced it. From time to time there is a kernel panic. The message is not always the same (and it is Chinese for me), but it always ends with "exception in interrupt" and speaks of "common-irq"; when i can see the beginning it's about iptables-nat, and anyway it doesn't happen when iptables is stopped. Could there be an issue with SMP (I have two dual-core Xeons) Here is my /etc/sysconfig/iptables file: # Generated by iptables-save v1.2.9 on Thu Aug 19 18:12:27 2004 *nat :PREROUTING ACCEPT [0:0] :POSTROUTING ACCEPT [0:0] :OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0] -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j SNAT --to-source 81.57.16.29 COMMIT # Completed on Thu Aug 19 18:12:27 2004 # Generated by iptables-save v1.2.9 on Thu Aug 19 18:12:27 2004 *filter :INPUT ACCEPT [0:0] :FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0] :OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0] :block - [0:0] -A INPUT -j block -A FORWARD -j block -A block -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT -A block -i eth0 -p tcp -m state --state NEW -m tcp --dport 21 -j ACCEPT -A block -i eth0 -p udp -m state --state NEW -m udp --dport 21 -j ACCEPT -A block -i eth0 -p tcp -m state --state NEW -m tcp --dport 22 -j ACCEPT -A block -i eth0 -p udp -m state --state NEW -m udp --dport 22 -j ACCEPT -A block -i eth0 -p tcp -m state --state NEW -m tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT -A block -i eth0 -p udp -m state --state NEW -m udp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT -A block -i eth0 -p tcp -m state --state NEW -m tcp --dport 25 -j ACCEPT -A block -i eth0 -p tcp -m state --state NEW -m tcp --dport 53 -j ACCEPT -A block -i eth0 -p udp -m state --state NEW -m udp --dport 53 -j ACCEPT -A block -p tcp -m state --state NEW -m tcp --dport 5901 -j ACCEPT -A block -p tcp -m state --state NEW -m tcp --dport 5801 -j ACCEPT -A block -p tcp -m state --state NEW -m tcp --dport 2009 -j ACCEPT -A block -p tcp -m state --state NEW -m tcp --dport 2106 -j ACCEPT -A block -p tcp -m state --state NEW -m tcp --dport 7777 -j ACCEPT -A block -p tcp -m state --state NEW -m tcp --dport 5432 -j ACCEPT -A block -i ! eth0 -j ACCEPT -A block -j DROP COMMIT # Completed on Thu Aug 19 18:12:27 2004 Can anybody help? Jacques Rodary (Sorry for my English)