Hi folks, this question is not really directly security-related, but I'm gonna post it here, because I got the problem due to my intention to be as secure as possible :) As I read that the "older" kernel 2.2 is not as secure as the newer one 2.4 is, I installed my linux-machine complete from the crab with SuSE 7.3. This box acts as a Router/Gateway for the LAN. On the first sight everything works fine, but I found that its not possible to connect to ftp-servers from the clients. Well, the connection itself works, but I can't get the dirlist. I tried out several servers, all with the same effort: Connection works, but when the client wants to get the dir, connection hangs. I know I had the same problem with 2.2 and could solve it with "insmod ftp_masq" (or similar) but now this module can't be found on the whole HDD. Maybe there is a special iptables-command necessary ? Can someone please point me to the right direction and/or tell me how to get this to work ? Routing/MAsquerading is actually done with: iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o ppp0 -j MASQUERADE echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward Is something missing ? Thanks in advance for your help. Stephan