From: Jan Humme <jan.humme@xs4all.nl>
To: "Adam D. Barratt" <netfilter.list@adam-barratt.org.uk>,
Netfilter Mailing List <netfilter@lists.samba.org>
Subject: Re: trying to get one blessed thing to work
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 19:30:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0207081930150C.14428@Lms> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <077c01c226a4$3587a7d0$3200a8c0@jungle.funkybadger.org>
On Monday 08 July 2002 19:23, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> Jan Humme wrote:
> > On Monday 08 July 2002 18:32, Mark Tessier wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > > The first thing I did was to set the policy to drop for the
>
> forward chain
>
> > > as in:
> > >
> > > iptables --policy FORWARD DROP
> >
> > => Response on my machine (and yours) is:
> > iptables v1.2.1a: Unknown arg '--policy'
> > Try 'iptables -h` or 'iptables --help' for more information.
>
> Not on a 1.2.6a (or any version I've ever used) it's not. If you enter
>
> iptables --policy
>
> without any arguments, then you'll get that error. Enter the line as
> quoted and it'll work perfectly.
>
> > Suppose you mean:
> > #iptables -P FORWARD DROP ?
>
> RFTM. -P is shorthand for --policy, as iptables --help would quickly
> have shown.
Thank you.
I deserved and needed to hear that.
Jan Humme.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-08 17:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-08 16:32 trying to get one blessed thing to work Mark Tessier
2002-07-08 16:56 ` Jan Humme
2002-07-08 17:23 ` Adam D. Barratt
2002-07-08 17:30 ` Jan Humme [this message]
2002-07-08 17:25 ` Jan Humme
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2002-07-08 16:48 riffraff
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