I'm running mdk8.2 as a firewall/router. I'm using ipkungfu to configure iptables http://www.linuxkungfu.org/ipkungfu-0.2.0.tgz According to the author nothing is blocked from $NETWORK, which is fine by me but I'm trying to setup an internal network that uses dhcp. After much confusion I tail'ed /var/log/syslog and found that iptables was denying a request.... Nov 25 00:11:39 pcp662918pcs kernel: INPUT Catch-all - Deny: IN=eth1 OUT= MAC=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:e0:4c:03:1d:8d:08:00 SRC=0.0.0.0 DST=255.255.255.255 LEN=576 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=48895 PROTO=UDP SPT=68 DPT=67 LEN=556 So I added the IP to /etc/ipkungfu/custom.dict and it worked. I submitted the 'fix' to the author and he seems to be happy. But I'm still left with a couple of questions... Do all dhcp requests from a client that does not have an IP come from 0.0.0.0 and is that the normal 'normal' behavior of an iptables scripts? ML