Hi! > With ipchains there was a tool ipchains-save and restore. You could save > all your rules in a file en restore them later with that file. > > Is there something identical with iptables? I hope not. ipchains-save and -restore are lacking anything to make complex things easy. You cannot declare variables (IF-EXT, IF-INT,...) and you cannot use loops. It is much nicer to use a bash or perl script to build up your rules. Jörn