From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: felix@crowfix.com Subject: Re: Newbie question about NAT and forwarding Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 19:43:31 -0700 Message-ID: <20060907024331.GA2591@crowfix.com> References: <20060906205232.GA23980@crowfix.com> <44FF5F42.4050605@plouf.fr.eu.org> <20060907002458.GA13990@crowfix.com> <44FF77DD.9030005@plouf.fr.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44FF77DD.9030005@plouf.fr.eu.org> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: netfilter-bounces@lists.netfilter.org Errors-To: netfilter-bounces@lists.netfilter.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 03:37:33AM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > felix@crowfix.com a ?crit : > > > >I've used table names with iptables commands in my shell scripts, but > >I didn't know this /etc/iproute2 directory existed. > > Huh ? AFAIK, iptables commands do not use routing tables. Can you give > an example ? I am showing my newbie status. Maybe I meant chain names? Here is a snippet I use to enable and disable ssh, with SSH being a table?chain? name I can use in another script: iptables -N SSH iptables -A SSH -j LOG --log-prefix 'IPT: SSH: ' iptables -A SSH -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT-TCP -p TCP -m multiport --dports ssh -j SSH I knew I didn't know a lot about iptables -- it looks like I knew even less than I thought! -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / felix@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o