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From: Jakov Sosic <jsosic@jsosic.homeunix.org>
Subject: Re: why DROP in PREROUTING
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 16:52:56 +0200
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On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 11:59:58 +0200
G=E1sp=E1r Lajos <swifty@freemail.hu> wrote:

> You can filter all of these packets at one point no matter where they=20
> coming from and going to....

Oscar is against it in his tutorial, he even says a reason. If I
remember correctly, it's beacuse only the first packet hits that rule,
and others get the same action without further checking, and that's not
a good idea to do.



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