Hi, I''m new to Shorewall and am trying to get the hang of the configuration. I run Gentoo, so my ebuild did not have a useful action.std. That said, I have manually edited my rules file with the hope of enabling basic services and a few others. While enabling http, ping, etc was smooth, a few apps have given me trouble: GAIM, aMule, and Squirrelmail. I''ve included my rules below in the hope of ironing out any problems. Where GAIM and aMule are concerned, I''m guessing it''s partially an issue of how to specify IP ranges. Thank you, Phil *snip* # Accept DNS connections from the firewall to the network # ACCEPT fw net tcp 53 ACCEPT fw net udp 53 ACCEPT net fw tcp 53 ACCEPT net fw udp 53 # # Accept SSH connections from the local network for administration # ACCEPT loc fw tcp 22 ACCEPT net fw tcp 22 ACCEPT fw net tcp 22 # # Allow Ping To And From Firewall # ACCEPT loc fw icmp 8 ACCEPT net fw icmp 8 ACCEPT fw loc icmp 8 ACCEPT fw net icmp 8 # # HTTPD # ACCEPT fw net tcp 80 ACCEPT net fw tcp 80 ACCEPT fw net tcp 443 ACCEPT net fw tcp 443 # GNUMP3 ACCEPT fw net tcp 8888 ACCEPT net fw tcp 8888 # GENEWEB ACCEPT fw net tcp 2317 ACCEPT net fw tcp 2317 # GAIM # ACCEPT fw net tcp 1863 # ACCEPT net fw tcp 1863 # # IMAP # ACCEPT net fw tcp 143 ACCEPT loc fw tcp 143 ACCEPT net fw tcp 993 ACCEPT loc fw tcp 993 ACCEPT net fw tcp 220 ACCEPT loc fw tcp 220 # IRC ACCEPT net fw tcp 194 ACCEPT net fw udp 194 # SMTP ACCEPT net fw tcp 25 ACCEPT net fw udp 25 ACCEPT fw net tcp 25 ACCEPT fw net udp 25 # NEWS ACCEPT net fw tcp 119 ACCEPT net fw udp 119 # AMULE ACCEPT net fw tcp 4662 ACCEPT fw net tcp 4662 ACCEPT net fw udp 4672 ACCEPT fw net udp 4672