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From: "Gáspár Lajos" <swifty@freemail.hu>
To: "Pedro Gonçalves" <pedro.pandre@gmail.com>
Cc: Netfilter IPtableMailinglist <netfilter@lists.netfilter.org>
Subject: Re: Policy targets...
Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 12:34:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <464446C5.8090301@freemail.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <464443AE.5020904@gmail.com>

Pedro Gonçalves írta:
>
> *ACCEPT means to let the packet through.*   
> DROP means to drop the on the floor.  QUEUE means to pass the packet 
> to userspace  (if ported  by  the kernel).  *RETURN means stop 
> traversing this chain and
>       resume at the next rule in the previous (calling) chain.     If  
> the  end
>       of a built-in chain is reached or a rule in a built-in chain 
> with tar-
>       get RETURN is matched, the target specified by the chain policy 
> deter-
>       mines the fate of the packet.*
>
Thanx for the answer but my question was that what happens when the 
CHAIN POLICY is RETURN... :D (The packet will be returned to the sender 
??? :D [Don't get seriously, just kidding.])

iptables -t nat -P PREROUTING ACCEPT

vs.

iptables -t nat -P PREROUTING RETURN

> Best Regards
> pandre




  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-11 10:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-11 10:14 Policy targets Gáspár Lajos
2007-05-11 10:21 ` Pedro Gonçalves
2007-05-11 10:34   ` Gáspár Lajos [this message]
     [not found]     ` <46444B26.6010206@gmail.com>
2007-05-11 11:03       ` Gáspár Lajos
     [not found]         ` <46488357.90209@vlsmaps.com>
2007-05-15  9:03           ` Gáspár Lajos
2007-05-15 11:13 ` Petr Pisar
2007-05-21 16:13   ` Gáspár Lajos

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