Hey, > I find this diagram which details the kernel packet traveling : > http://www.docum.org/docum.org/kptd/ there's also one from the iptables-tutorial: http://iptables-tutorial.frozentux.net/images/tables_traverse.jpg Greets -- Frank Remetter http://www.remetter.de/ GPG-FP: 2B07 B7D8 5C27 AB94 7A37 8B0B DEBE DD89 D68B 7BE6