From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pascal Hambourg Subject: Re: iptables: unknown protocol "!" specified Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2015 09:18:56 +0100 Message-ID: <56517A70.4020001@plouf.fr.eu.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: netfilter-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: Roger Price Cc: Netfilter Users Mailing list Roger Price a =E9crit : >=20 > Explanation ... This match can also be inversed with the ! > sign, so --protocol ! tcp would mean to match UDP and ICMP. No, it means to match anything but TCP. There are many other protocols than TCP, UDP and ICMP.