Am Mo, den 05.01.2004 schrieb James W. Bennett um 02:16: [ snip ] comments all to the attached rc.firewall-2.4 script: 1) you filter only in the FORWARD chain and DROP all unwanted traffic? DROP is bad, so add a last rule which REJECTs unwanted traffic all traffic for INPUT and OUTPUT is ACCEPTed due to your policy, so nothing is filtered for the services on the firewalling host itself 2) ip_forward is set in /etc/sysctl.conf and this way activated during bootup Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany PGP key valid: made 13.07.1999 PGP fingerprint: 2307 88FD 2D41 038E 7416 14CD E197 6E88 ED69 5653