> i am quite a newbie ... > > what you say means that i need to do a remove of both lines and add the > both in in the revers order ... is that correct ? Run these commands as root: iptables -D RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -j REJECT iptables -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -j REJECT service iptables save service iptables status Please post results to the list Thomas