On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 10:32:08AM -0400, Richard Goodman wrote: dick> One unresolved issue - when I issue an IPChains command, the first time I dick> get "IPchains incompatible with this kernel" and thereafter "IPChains dick> protocol not available". The IPChains command is there, as for example dick> "ipchains -h" works. But I haven't got masquerading or firewalling yet dick> because of this. I've seen this before. The /etc/rc.d/init.d/ipchains script manually modprobe's the ipchains module. If you aren't using that script, then you need to do it yourself: /sbin/modprobe ipchains -- Charles R. Anderson <cra@wpi.edu> / http://angus.ind.wpi.edu/~cra/ PGP Key ID: 49BB5886 Fingerprint: EBA3 A106 7C93 FA07 8E15 3AC2 C367 A0F9 49BB 5886