10/10 My thanks to Ed Wilts for helping me to enable static routes at startup 1. Made a new file /etc/sysconfig/ as static-routes. made it executable. 2. Edited with entry for instance: any net 192.168.18.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 gw 192.168.1.6 3. service network restart Also my thanks to Daniel Eugenin for an alternative way: 1. Create a file route-eth1 {where eth1 is through which the route can be reached} in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts 2. Edit the file with entry: 192.168.18.0/24 via 192.168.1.6 3. Restart the network. The advice to put my firwall script in /etc/rc.d/init.d also worked to make the scripts execute automatic. ---------------------------------------------------------- Question: I want to implement packet-limitting through my iptables firewall in Redhat 9. If I make a new chain and add these rules I would like to know if it would work. 1.iptables -N LimitChain 2.iptables -A LimitChain -m limit --limit 5/second --limit-burst 10 -j RETURN // Defining packet threshhold 3.iptables -A LimitChain -m limit --limit 1/second --log-prefix "Drop packets: " -j LOG // Log limit 4.iptables -A LimitChain -j DROP Would the rule 2 return to the calling chain say INPUT chain if the limit is not reached; AND if the limit is reaches log and drop the packets with rules 3 and 4? Thank You. Sincerely, Menon -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list