The first public Beta of Shorewall 1.3.12 is now available: New features include: 1) "shorewall refresh" now reloads the traffic shaping rules (tcrules and tcstart). 2) "shorewall debug [re]start" now turns off debugging after an error occurs. This places the point of the failure near the end of the trace rather than up in the middle of it. 3) "shorewall [re]start" has been speeded up by more than 40% with my configuration. Your milage may vary. 4) A "shorewall show classifiers" command has been added which shows the current packet classification filters. The output from this command is also added as a separate page in "shorewall monitor" 5) ULOG (must be all caps) is now accepted as a valid syslog level and causes the subject packets to be logged using the ULOG target rather than the LOG target. This allows you to run ulogd (available from http://www.gnumonks.org/projects/ulogd) and log all Shorewall messages to a separate log file. 6) If you are running a kernel that has a FORWARD chain in the mangle table ("shorewall show mangle" will show you the chains in the mangle table), you can set MARK_IN_FORWARD=Yes in shorewall.conf. This allows for marking input packets based on their destination even when you are using Masquerading or SNAT. 7) I have cluttered up the /etc/shorewall directory with empty ''init'', ''start'', ''stop'' and ''stopped'' files. If you already have a file with one of these names, don''t worry -- the upgrade process won''t overwrite your file. -Tom -- Tom Eastep \ Shorewall - iptables made easy Shoreline, \ http://shorewall.sf.net Washington USA \ teastep@shorewall.net