I've read in any place that there was a manner to save the ipchains status to a file and later recover this status from that file, that's in fact that i can specified a set of rules, then save it to a file just with ipchains command and later restablish these rules again calling ipchains command with that filename as parameter in any manner that i cannot remember... i'm wrong? is this is right... how is done? Excuse my poor english, hope you all understand the question. Best regards, -- Francisco M. Marzoa Alonso Nuevo Mundo - Dpto. Informático ICQ#: 62850923 Henri Dunant, 19 - 28036 Madrid tfno: +34 91 343 18 40 ext. 207 España / Spain fax: +34 91 350 28 45