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From: Ramin Dousti <ramin@cannon.eng.us.uu.net>
Subject: Re: Ip handling
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 09:30:45 -0400
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To: Pascal Italiaander <pc-secure@home.nl>
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On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 10:08:54AM +0200, Pascal Italiaander wrote:

> Op donderdag 19 juni 2003 06:02, schreef Ramin Dousti:
> > 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
> 
> 
> huhum....  , did you notice the -I insert rule ?
> 
> The -I rule means that the rule is placed at the beginning of the chain.  :-)

Yes, sorry. I'm used to -A... which gives you a chronological order of
the rule setup. With -I you have to read the rules in the reverse order ;-)

Ramin

> 
> Pascal
> 
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