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From: "Neal P. Murphy" <neal.p.murphy@alum.wpi.edu>
To: Roger Price <roger@rogerprice.org>
Cc: Netfilter Users Mailing list <netfilter@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: iptables: unknown protocol "!" specified
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2015 15:57:53 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151121155753.0c7e1850@playground> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1511211917160.3864@maria.rogerprice.org>

On Sat, 21 Nov 2015 21:48:47 +0100 (CET)
Roger Price <roger@rogerprice.org> wrote:

> Hi, I'm reading the iptables tutorial 1.2.2 by Oskar Andreasson at 
> https://www.frozentux.net/iptables-tutorial/iptables-tutorial.html where I 
> read:
> 
>   Match           -p, --protocol
>   Example         iptables -A INPUT -p tcp
>   Explanation ... This match can also be inversed with the !
>   sign, so --protocol ! tcp would mean to match UDP and ICMP.
> 
> So I tried it on openSUSE 13.2 and iptables replied:
> 
>   pinta:~ # iptables -A INPUT --protocol ! icmp
>   iptables v1.4.21: unknown protocol "!" specified
>   Try `iptables -h' or 'iptables --help' for more information.
> 
> Escaping the ! as \! makes no difference.  I am doing something wrong. 
> Any suggestion as to what it is would be very welcome.

This was changed quite some time ago. The 'infix' notation was removed.

Try "! --protocol icmp".

N

  reply	other threads:[~2015-11-21 20:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-21 20:48 iptables: unknown protocol "!" specified Roger Price
2015-11-21 20:57 ` Neal P. Murphy [this message]
2015-11-21 21:10   ` Roger Price
2015-11-22  8:18 ` Pascal Hambourg
2015-11-22 16:05   ` Roger Price
2015-11-22 17:20     ` Pascal Hambourg

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