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From: "Alessandro O. Ungaro" <x-arnie@ccpbr.org>
Subject: Re: iptables -F
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 14:21:57 -0300
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Shannon,

when you use the iptables command and no specify the table, it assumes 
that the table is filter, so "iptables -t filter -F" is the same as 
"iptables -F". That's why you need to specify the table to flush the 
nat, like flush mangle, etc...

best regards,

x-arnie

Shannon Roddy wrote:
> Can someone help me out here?  I figured that iptables -F would flush
> all tables including the nat table, but it appears to not flush it.  I
> have to explicitly use iptables -t nat -F to fllush the NAT rules.
> 
> Thanks,
> Shannon
> 
> 
>