Hello all I posted this question on the lrp list but no one did reply :( I do think that it is important though. I have a eigerstein router / variant kenneth hadley -dsl dynamic address. On the router i found this masqueraded connection caused by a windows 95 machine 192.168.1.2 obvious doing "windows Stuff ;) ". udp 1:26.02 192.168.1.2 50.171.209.212 137 -> 137 (62523) The problem i have is the following: As far as i read the ipchains rules my external interface doesn't allow traffic incoming or outgoing over port 137. If this shows up in actual masqueraded connection doesn't it mean that there was or is a connection or is the cause the reject and wouldn't it show up if i denied ? If there was a real connection then a ) I have a failure in my ipchains order, (don't see it ) or something doesn't function as it should, perhaps due to the virtual device pppoe is creating. I added a rule on the internal interface blocking port 137 with logging and got several hunderd hits a day. This are the firewll rules as taken from the weblet, during the connection above the blocking are put between stripes. DENY icmp ----l- 0xFF 0x00 * 0/0 0/0 13 -> * 0 0 DENY icmp ----l- * 0/0 0/0 14 -> * 0 0 DENY all ----l- ppp0 0.0.0.0 0/0 n/a 0 0 DENY all ----l- ppp0 255.255.255.255 0/0 n/a 0 0 DENY all ----l- ppp0 127.0.0.0/8 0/0 n/a 0 0 DENY all ----l- ppp0 224.0.0.0/4 0/0 n/a 0 0 DENY all ----l- ppp0 10.0.0.0/8 0/0 n/a 0 0 DENY all ----l- ppp0 172.16.0.0/12 0/0 n/a 0 0 DENY all ----l- ppp0 192.168.0.0/16 0/0 n/a 0 0 DENY all ----l- ppp0 0.0.0.0/8 0/0 n/a 0 0 DENY all ----l- ppp0 128.0.0.0/16 0/0 n/a 0 0 DENY all ----l- ppp0 191.255.0.0/16 0/0 n/a 0 0 DENY all ----l- ppp0 192.0.0.0/24 0/0 n/a 0 0 DENY all ----l- ppp0 223.255.255.0/24 0/0 n/a 0 0 DENY all ----l- ppp0 240.0.0.0/4 0/0 n/a 0 0 DENY all ----l- ppp0 192.168.1.0/24 0/0 n/a 0 0 REJECT all ----l- ppp0 0/0 127.0.0.0/8 n/a 0 0 REJECT all ----l- ppp0 0/0 192.168.1.0/24 n/a 0 0 REJECT tcp ------ ppp0 0/0 0/0 * -> 137 0 0 REJECT tcp ------ ppp0 0/0 0/0 * -> 135 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 0 0 REJECT udp ------ ppp0 0/0 0/0 * -> 137 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 0 0 REJECT udp ------ ppp0 0/0 0/0 * -> 135 0 0 REJECT tcp ------ ppp0 0/0 0/0 * -> 138:139 0 0 REJECT udp ------ ppp0 0/0 0/0 * -> 138 0 0 REJECT udp ------ ppp0 0/0 0/0 137:138 -> * 0 0 REJECT udp ------ ppp0 0/0 0/0 135 -> * 0 0 REJECT tcp ------ ppp0 0/0 0/0 137:139 -> * 0 0 REJECT tcp ------ ppp0 0/0 0/0 135 -> * 0 0 REJECT tcp ------ ppp0 0/0 0/0 * -> 113 24873 10M ACCEPT tcp ------ ppp0 0/0 0/0 * -> 1024:65535 0 0 REJECT udp ----l- ppp0 0/0 0/0 * -> 161:162 0 0 ACCEPT udp ------ ppp0 0/0 0/0 * -> 53 0 0 ACCEPT udp ------ ppp0 0/0 0/0 * -> 68 0 0 DENY udp ------ ppp0 0/0 0/0 * -> 67 2208 956K ACCEPT udp ------ ppp0 0/0 0/0 * -> 1024:65535 33 2174 ACCEPT icmp ------ ppp0 0/0 0/0 * -> * 0 0 ACCEPT ospf ------ ppp0 0/0 0/0 n/a 0 0 DENY all ----l- ppp0 0/0 0/0 n/a 0 0 REJECT udp ----l- * 0/0 0/0 * -> 161:162 0 0 REJECT udp ----l- * 0/0 0/0 161:162 -> * 27311 1964K ACCEPT all ------ * 0/0 0/0 n/a Chain forward (policy DENY: 0 packets, 0 bytes): pkts bytes target prot opt tosa tosx ifname mark outsize source destination ports 0 0 DENY icmp ----l- * 0/0 0/0 5 -> * 25576 1765K MASQ all ------ ppp0 192.168.1.0/24 0/0 n/a 0 0 DENY all ------ * 0/0 0/0 n/a Chain output (policy DENY: 0 packets, 0 bytes): pkts bytes target prot opt tosa tosx ifname mark outsize source destination ports 53318 13M fairq all ------ * 0/0 0/0 n/a 0 0 DENY all ----l- ppp0 0.0.0.0 0/0 n/a 0 0 DENY all ----l- ppp0 255.255.255.255 0/0 n/a 0 0 DENY all ----l- ppp0 127.0.0.0/8 0/0 n/a 0 0 DENY all ----l- ppp0 224.0.0.0/4 0/0 n/a 0 0 DENY all ----l- ppp0 10.0.0.0/8 0/0 n/a 0 0 DENY all ----l- ppp0 172.16.0.0/12 0/0 n/a 0 0 DENY all ----l- ppp0 192.168.0.0/16 0/0 n/a 0 0 DENY all ----l- ppp0 0.0.0.0/8 0/0 n/a 0 0 DENY all ----l- ppp0 128.0.0.0/16 0/0 n/a 0 0 DENY all ----l- ppp0 191.255.0.0/16 0/0 n/a 0 0 DENY all ----l- ppp0 192.0.0.0/24 0/0 n/a 0 0 DENY all ----l- ppp0 223.255.255.0/24 0/0 n/a 0 0 DENY all ----l- ppp0 240.0.0.0/4 0/0 n/a 0 0 DENY all ------ ppp0 192.168.1.0/24 0/0 n/a 0 0 REJECT tcp ------ ppp0 0/0 0/0 * -> 137 0 0 REJECT tcp ------ ppp0 0/0 0/0 * -> 135 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 12 936 REJECT udp ------ ppp0 0/0 0/0 * -> 137 obvious is ppp0 blocking effectively.? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 0 0 REJECT udp ------ ppp0 0/0 0/0 * -> 135 0 0 REJECT tcp ------ ppp0 0/0 0/0 * -> 138:139 0 0 REJECT udp ------ ppp0 0/0 0/0 * -> 138 0 0 REJECT udp ------ ppp0 0/0 0/0 137:138 -> * 0 0 REJECT udp ------ ppp0 0/0 0/0 135 -> * 0 0 REJECT tcp ------ ppp0 0/0 0/0 137:139 -> * 0 0 REJECT tcp ------ ppp0 0/0 0/0 135 -> * 53306 13M ACCEPT all ------ * 0/0 0/0 n/a Chain fairq (1 references): pkts bytes target prot opt tosa tosx ifname mark outsize source destination ports /* deleted */ Thanks for any help Eric wolzak _______________________________________________ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel