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* Where to drop packets ...
@ 2002-11-11 13:46 Ray Leach
  2002-11-12  9:08 ` Antony Stone
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From: Ray Leach @ 2002-11-11 13:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: netfilter

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Hi

Is it better to drop or reject packets in the mangle-prerouting table or
in the filter-forward chain?

Ray

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* Re: Where to drop packets ...
  2002-11-11 13:46 Where to drop packets Ray Leach
@ 2002-11-12  9:08 ` Antony Stone
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Antony Stone @ 2002-11-12  9:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: netfilter

On Monday 11 November 2002 1:46 pm, Ray Leach wrote:

> Hi
>
> Is it better to drop or reject packets in the mangle-prerouting table or
> in the filter-forward chain?

Filter-forward.

The mangle tables are for mangling packets.

The filter tables are for filtering them.

Drop and reject are filtering actions.

Antony.

-- 

Normal people think "if it ain't broke, don't fix it".
Engineers think "if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet".


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