You should not mix the two ... It's a different "layer". NetFilter just deals with from what physical address does he / she wants to talk to what physical adrress. There is a nothing of what protocole is used by also looking at the ports used but this only a hint, not a assertion. Thomas, ========================= perhaps you can redirect all the web traffic to a proxy server who makes the authentication -----Mensaje original----- De: fredinho carioca [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Enviado el: viernes 19 de abril de 2002 1:17 Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Asunto: authentication? hello, does netfilter allow authentication? i 'm finding a solution to authenticate users when they want to access a web server via my netfilter firewall have you a solution thanks fred
