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From: Ramin Dousti <ramin@cannon.eng.us.uu.net>
Subject: Re: Ip handling
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 00:02:49 -0400
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To: Pascal Italiaander <pc-secure@home.nl>
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On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 02:01:21AM +0200, Pascal Italiaander wrote:

> small errors were in it, fixed:
> 
>  iptables -I INPUT -p all -m mac --mac-source 10:20:30:40:05:06 -m \
>  	state --state NEW -j ACCEPT
>  iptables -I OUTPUT -p all -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT

Just a performance note. Since a high percentage of the packets are
ESTABLISHED,RELATED it is recommended to have this rule at the
beginning of the rule set prior to any other rule and also "-p all"
is redundant...

Ramin

> Pascal