opps, it is ipchains, I should have read the message for closely, duhh On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Justin Zygmont wrote: > hmm, that looks like ipchains > > On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Ricky Malt wrote: > > > Hi, > > I am currently using ' Rusty's Three-Line Guide To Masquerading '. i.e. > > # ipchains -P forward DENY > > # ipchains -A forward -i ppp0 -j MASQ > > # echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward > > > > this is making my linux box as a gateway for all on my lan. > > > > 1 . How can i achieve this with iptables. > > 2 . and how can i restrict a particular ip/host to access this as a gw > > to the internet > > > > I am new to ip filtering. > > > > Regards > > > > > > > > > > >