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From: Kelly Setzer <Kelly.Setzer@placemark.com>
To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Purpose of self-referential rule
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 10:06:28 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030224160628.GH4316@placemark.com> (raw)

I've been experimenting with gShield trying to learn the ins and outs
of iptables.  One of the rules is generates is:

iptables -A INPUT -s 192.168.6.0/24 -d 192.168.6.0/24 -i eth1 -j ACCEPT

The source and dest are correct for my internal network, and eth1 is
the internal net.  My question is, when would the firewall ever see a
packet that could possible match this?  Any packet with a source and
destination on the same network would send the packet directly (no
routing, thus no firewall).

What am I missing?

thanks,
Kelly
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             reply	other threads:[~2003-02-24 16:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-02-24 16:06 Kelly Setzer [this message]
2003-02-26 14:03 ` Purpose of self-referential rule Joel Newkirk
2003-02-26 14:55   ` Kelly Setzer
2003-02-26 15:33 ` Alistair Tonner
2003-02-26 17:52 ` Del Winiecki

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