Hi, I just jumped into iptables. (sid with kernel 2.4.18) phew!! what excitment Anyway, I have masquerading working from private ips so that they can surf, but FTP is not working. I had this similar problem with IPchains. With IPChains, I would edit /etc/ipmasq/modules and unpound the ftp line there. Is there a new way to fix this with iptables? and what if the ftp server is servicing on a port other than the standard 21? Thanks Mike