> Can someone tell me a good way to stop the web ad-packets
> from advertising.com, ads.doubleclick.com, etc.
> I am running ipf and have tried dropping packets from
> several sources. I have also cleaned out the ./.netscape/cookies
> file, but it only seems to make things worse...

Take a look at pkgsrc/www/adzap.  When used in conjunction with a
squid proxy (pkgsrc/www/squid), it seems quite effective in filtering
them out..  Squid can also be set up to filter out cookies and similar
browser junk food.

						- Bill