On Wednesday 2008-04-09 19:01, Minh Cao wrote: >Thanks for your help ! > >Please explain why these two acting differently. >On #2 I can login as anonymous, but ls. ^ but not ls That's because in #2, you limit RELATED to port 21, which is essentially meaningless. In #1, RELATED applies to any port (as does ESTABLISHED). >Can I combine two rules into one ? > >1/ >-A INPUT -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j >ACCEPT >-A INPUT -m state --state NEW -p tcp -m tcp --dport 21 >-j ACCEPT No. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html