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Subject: Re: weird iptables behaviour
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 01:15:05 -0500
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On Friday 2005-September-16 00:45, Grant Taylor wrote:
> > On the openvpn box, FORWARD policy is DROP, so I did
> > "iptables -I FORWARD -i tap0 -j ACCEPT" and thought this
> > should do the trick. But I was wrong. The only solutions I
>
> First of all you will need to have a corresponding rule:
>
> iptables -I FORWARD -o tap0 -j ACCEPT
>
> To allow traffic in the reverse direction too.

Better yet, the usual stateful rule:
iptables -I FORWARD -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
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