This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0015_01C1E08F.66DEB0E0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Iv'e created a set of firewall rules (my first attempt, ipchains). I = want to be able to serve webpages, access the server remotley via ssh = and allow 2 computers FTP access. I don't want anyone or anythng else to = go in or out of the server. This is running on RedHat 7.2 Here are the rules :input ACCEPT :forward ACCEPT :output ACCEPT -A input -s 0/0 -d 0/0 80 -p tcp -y -j ACCEPT -A input -s 63.226.xxx.xxx -d 0/0 20 -p tcp -y -j ACCEPT -A input -s 63.226.xxx.xxx -d 0/0 21 -p tcp -y -j ACCEPT -A input -s 63.226.yyy.yyy -d 0/0 20 -p tcp -y -j ACCEPT -A input -s 63.226.yyy.yyy -d 0/0 21 -p tcp -y -j ACCEPT -A input -s 0/0 -d 0/0 22 -p tcp -y -j ACCEPT -A input -s 0/0 -d 0/0 -i lo -j ACCEPT -A input -s 63.226.zzz.zzz 53 -d 0/0 -p udp -j ACCEPT -A input -s 0/0 -d 0/0 -p tcp -y -j REJECT -A input -s 0/0 -d 0/0 -p udp -j REJECT 63.336.zzz.zzz is the IP of our router and 63.226.xxx.xxx and yyy are = computers on the network that I want to have ftp access Will the above do what I want it to do? Is what I want to do secure? Regards, Charlie ------=_NextPart_000_0015_01C1E08F.66DEB0E0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable