I have a weird idea and was wondering if anyone has tried this or know if it will or won't work! I have an ADSL connection to the 'net and although I have a firewall in place, I am the paranoid sort and would like something else in between the ADSL router and firewall. The problem of course is that I cannot modify the config of the ADSL router and give a next hop route to my intervening machine, besides I don't want to lose the addresses that further subnetting involves. So I though I might do something with bridging. INTERNET | | ADSL ROUTER | | Bridge | | Firewall | | PRIVATE NETWORK I guess the key to this even having any hope of working is if IPCHAINS (or whatever it's called now) get processed before packets are bridged. i.e. If I put an input-list on the Bridge's "outside" interface to stop stuff connecting to the Firewall's IP address (which is on the "inside" of the bridge) will it be applied before the packet is bridged through? I suppose the easiest way is to try it, but time being a scarce resource these days I thought I'd see if anyone had tried this and succeeded or failed. TIA. Graham. _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list