\_ SMTP quoth Steve Holmes on 2/25/2002 14:30 as having spake thusly: \_ \_ Actually, I can't do it from the firewall box nor the inside. One thing I \_ can tell for sure, I can communicate back and forth between the local \_ boxes but nobody can get outside with ping, traceroute, dig or any of \_ those good buddies. The forward chain does look identical to what you \_ suggested below. I need to dig into the input chain, I believe. This \_ package script uses an inet-in rule to set up the various permissions and \_ the internet device (netward card) is defaulted to this internet rule. If \_ allowed through, those ports are '-j ACCEPT'. But devices lo (loopback) \_ and LAN card (eth0 in my case) both default to input -j ACCEPT so they \_ should be getting through no matter what, I would think. So I'm either \_ missing something or there may be a bug in my implementation of ipchains. You may need to to -j ACCEPT in masquerade chain for trusted devices? David