True, it is not reproducible with latest c165 build. However, I punted back to "core165 Development Build: next/cad86575" to test my sanity, the  glitch was quite reproducible. Logs are attached:  /var/log/messages; the (a) iptables output at first boot; the (b) iptables output after changing hostile fw option to off and rebooting . On 3/11/2022 10:28 AM, Michael Tremer wrote: > Hello, > > I tried to reproduce this and I can’t. > > Could you please send the output of “iptables -L -nv” to help me debug this? > > -Michael > >> On 8 Mar 2022, at 20:13, Charles Brown wrote: >> >> Just tried again with next/2022-03-08 09:59:43 +0000-32ce7ab4/x86_64 >> It seems simple to reproduce. See attached log. >> At initial boot after fresh install, cannot ping local private address gateway -- DROP_HOSTILE >> After editing settings in /var/ipfiire/optionsfw/settings -- changing DROPHOSTILE to off -- and rebooting, things worked as expected. >> I then changed DROPHOSTILE setting to on and rebooted -- resulting again with DROP_HOSTILE when pinging my local gateway. >> >> >> On 3/8/2022 9:47 AM, Michael Tremer wrote: >>> Hello Charles, >>> >>>> On 7 Mar 2022, at 12:26, Charles Brown wrote: >>>> >>>> Did a fresh install of core165 Development Build: next/cad86575 >>>> >>>> 1) Private Network is ‘Hostile’ – should it be? >>> No, it shouldn’t. >>> >>>> Initially, I had no access to red zone. All traffic was getting DROP_HOSTILE. >>>> My test setup has gateway through a 192.168 private network. Could not ping my 192.168 gateway without disabling the “drop hostile” feature. Somehow I thought that private network range would not be considered ‘hostile’. >>> Do you have some log files so I can look at what matched? >>> >>> What build are you running? >>> >>> -Michael >>> >>>> 2) Web page ids.cgi stops loading after header >>>> The page header down through "Intrusion Prevention System " is displayed and then stops -- nothing else on the page >>>> Log in httpd error shows as: >>>> "Unable to read file /var/ipfire/suricata/ignored at /var/ipfire/general-functions.pl line 883. " >>>> I went to the directory and created the 'ignored' file and chowned it to nobody:nobody. >>>> That allowed the page to complete loading >>>> >>>> -cab >>>> >>