Re: iptables related

[Antony Stone <Antony@Soft-Solutions.co.uk>]

On Monday 08 December 2003 7:19 pm, Jeffrin wrote:

> hello all,
>
> iptables -A INPUT -sport 80 -j ACCEPT
>
> shows error ...
>
>  msservices:~# iptables -A INPUT --sport 80 -j ACCEPT
> iptables v1.2.9: Unknown arg `--sport'
> Try `iptables -h' or 'iptables --help' for more information.
>
> please help me ...

You must specify whether you're talking about a TCP source port, or a UDP one.

iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --sport 80 -j ACCEPT
or
iptables -A INPUT -p udp --sport 80 -j ACCEPT

will work.

Antony.

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