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Subject: Re: block + kill connections
Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 16:02:28 -0600
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On Sunday 2006-January-08 15:44, bright true wrote:
> iptables -I INPUT -s 1.2.3.4 -j DROP
>
> but seems to be it doesn't kill the active connections , it works
> only for new incoming connections

I suspect we have an issue of INPUT vs. FORWARD misunderstanding here. 
See "man iptables" and the description of the filter table and its 
built-in chains.
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