I have installed RH9 with Squid and Apache working on the same machine with 2 lan cards
I have genrated belowmentioned iptable with the help of webmin

The only problem it has is it does not allow me to ftp / ping outside.

Please check the Rules and Help me if you can with the same

# Generated by iptables-save v1.2.7a on Thu Aug 21 12:19:06 2003
*nat
:PREROUTING ACCEPT [0:0]
:OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
:POSTROUTING ACCEPT [0:0]
-A POSTROUTING -o eth1 -j MASQUERADE
# Squid Redirect
-A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-port 3128
#COMMIT
# Completed on Thu Aug 21 12:19:06 2003
# Generated by iptables-save v1.2.7a on Thu Aug 21 12:19:06 2003
#*mangle
#:PREROUTING ACCEPT [11:1719]
#:INPUT ACCEPT [11:1719]
#:FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0]
#:OUTPUT ACCEPT [10:800]
#:POSTROUTING ACCEPT [10:800]
#COMMIT
# Completed on Thu Aug 21 12:19:06 2003
# Generated by iptables-save v1.2.7a on Thu Aug 21 12:19:06 2003
*filter
:FORWARD DROP [0:0]
:INPUT DROP [0:0]
:OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
# Accept traffic from internal interfaces
-A INPUT ! -i eth1 -j ACCEPT
# Accept traffic with the ACK flag set
-A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --tcp-flags ACK ACK -j ACCEPT
# Allow incoming data that is part of a connection we established
-A INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
# Allow data that is related to existing connections
-A INPUT -m state --state RELATED -j ACCEPT
# Accept responses to DNS queries
-A INPUT -p udp -m udp --dport 1024:65535 --sport 53 -j ACCEPT
# Accept responses to our pings
-A INPUT -p icmp -m icmp --icmp-type echo-reply -j ACCEPT
# Accept notifications of unreachable hosts
-A INPUT -p icmp -m icmp --icmp-type destination-unreachable -j ACCEPT
# Accept notifications to reduce sending speed
-A INPUT -p icmp -m icmp --icmp-type source-quench -j ACCEPT
# Accept notifications of lost packets
-A INPUT -p icmp -m icmp --icmp-type time-exceeded -j ACCEPT
# Accept notifications of protocol problems
-A INPUT -p icmp -m icmp --icmp-type parameter-problem -j ACCEPT
# HTTP ACCESS
-A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp -i eth1 --dport 80 -j ACCEPT
COMMIT
# Completed on Thu Aug 21 12:19:06 2003

Why does the iptable rules of redhat 7.3

does not work with redhat 9 ???????

i need Help............

Please Spawn do something yaar

All your rules seem good.

I suggest turning off iptables and then trying to ping / ftp in order to see if it works.