D. D. Brierton (darren@xxxxxxxxxxx) said: > I forgot to add this: by default my machine was configured to start > iptables, ip6tables AND ipchains at startup. Do I actually need > ipchains? I thought that had been superseded by iptables. No, you don't need it. Actually, the place where it 'starts' on bootup doesn't do anything if there's no config there. Bill