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From: Aleksandar Milivojevic <amilivojevic@pbl.ca>
Subject: Re: Simple question
Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 11:19:50 -0500
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To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Oriol_Magran=E9?= <omagrane@mediapro.es>
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Oriol Magran=E9 wrote:
> =20
>     Hello!
>     Just one question...
>     I have a firewall with the INPUT, OUTPUT and FORWARD policies set t=
o=20
> DROP, and now I want to allow connections from localhost to localhost=20
> (any port). Which chains are implied here? INPUT? OUTPUT? Both?
>     How should the needed rule(s) be?

You'd need both INPUT and OUTPUT.  Just as if it was connection to=20
remote system (just think what rules you would put on both local and=20
remote system if it was remote connection, and than apply both sets of=20
rules to local system, removing duplicates).

--=20
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