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From: Andrew Beverley <andy@andybev.com>
To: netfilter@buglecreek.com
Cc: netfilter@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Correct Chains to Apply Rules
Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 23:19:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1305670778.2741.10.camel@andybev-desktop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1305669045.20717.1453045045@webmail.messagingengine.com>

On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 15:50 -0600, netfilter@buglecreek.com wrote:

Please don't top post.

> OK.  Thanks.  So to block/allow traffic from network A to/from network B
> I would apply my rules to the FORWARD chain using a source/destination. 

Yes.

> The INPUT and OUTPUT chains on eth0 and eth1 are only for traffic bound
> for the firewall/router box itself? 

Yes.

A picture paints a thousand words:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/Netfilter-packet-flow.svg

Or if you want a simpler version:

http://www.docum.org/docum.org/kptd/

Andy



      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-05-17 22:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-17 21:14 Correct Chains to Apply Rules netfilter
2011-05-17 21:29 ` Pascal Hambourg
2011-05-17 21:50   ` netfilter
2011-05-17 22:06     ` Jorge Dávila
2011-05-17 22:19     ` Andrew Beverley [this message]

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