Re: trying to get one blessed thing to work

[Jan Humme <jan.humme@xs4all.nl>]

On Monday 08 July 2002 19:23, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> Jan Humme wrote:
> > On Monday 08 July 2002 18:32, Mark Tessier wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > > The first thing I did was to set the policy to drop for the
>
> forward chain
>
> > > as in:
> > >
> > > iptables --policy FORWARD DROP
> >
> > => Response on my machine (and yours) is:
> > iptables v1.2.1a: Unknown arg '--policy'
> > Try 'iptables -h` or 'iptables --help' for more information.
>
> Not on a 1.2.6a (or any version I've ever used) it's not. If you enter
>
>   iptables --policy
>
> without any arguments, then you'll get that error. Enter the line as
> quoted and it'll work perfectly.
>
> > Suppose you mean:
> > #iptables -P FORWARD DROP ?
>
> RFTM. -P is shorthand for --policy, as iptables --help would quickly
> have shown.

Thank you.

I deserved and needed to hear that.

Jan Humme.