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From: "Stephen J. McCracken" <smccracken@hcjb.org.ec>
Subject: Re: DROP
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 08:54:05 -0500
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To: Jason Opperisano <opie@817west.com>
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Jason Opperisano wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 07:37:22AM +0200, Brent Clark wrote:

>>I was wondering, if was adviseable to set the default policy for tables 
>>nat and mangle to DROP.
> 
> no.  *all* packets traverse the filter chains--do your filtering
> there.

Just to better understand, don't all packets also pass the mangle table 
and only the first packet of a connection the nat table?

Thanks for your enlightenment...

sjm