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From: Antony Stone <Antony@Soft-Solutions.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [despammed] -i and -o options for iptables FORWARD chain
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 14:03:02 +0000
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On Friday 02 January 2004 1:30 pm, Andreas Kretschmer wrote:

> am  Wed, dem 31.12.2003, um 15:36:34 -0800 mailte Gongya Yu folgendes:
> > Hi, I just updated Linux kernel to 2.6.0 with iptables and ebtables
> > enabled.
>
> I'm using iptables on 2.4.x, possible there are differences with 2.6.x.
>
> > But iptables ignores -i and -o options for FORWARD chain. Wheneneve I use
> > something like -i eth0 or -o eth0, the rule is just ignored.
>
> RTFM!
>
> -i is only for INPUT, FORWARD and PREROUTING
> -o is only for FORWARD, OUTPUT and POSTROUTING

Are you suggesting that -i and -o cannot be used in FORWARD?   As far as I can 
see the syntax of the rule Gonya posted is perfectly okay.

Antony.

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