hi, so far I have seen people using the iptables firewall to protect their own machine. that is, protect the machine where the iptables runs. I wonder if this firewall can be used the same way as firewall appliance used that is to be placed in between the Internet link and the LAN switch. -- 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