Hello all! I lately installed a firewall on my SuSe 6.2 Box, to protect our corporate network. The firewall runs almost as supposed, but i have a speed problem with network traffic, since the firewall is up. At the moment http and ftp is forwarded to a local proxy. This works great and with almost the same performance as without an firewall. The problems are other services, for example a telnet-session to the firewall (yes, i know i schould be using ssh. --working on it!) needs about 20 seconds ( 2 secs before firewall) to connect. The same problem exists for pop3, smtp- and domain-services. These rules are always confgured as an input and an output rule, no forwarding is done on any ports. Maybe i have just not compiled the kernel features in the right way? Or is the ruleset more complicated? Has anybody a solution for this problem by now, or is more "input" needed? Thanks! Thomas