Re: could someone translate these rules inot plain english

[Arnt Karlsen <arnt@c2i.net>]

On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 17:34:28 +1100, 
Alex Satrapa <alex@lintelsys.com.au> wrote in message 
<400F6EF4.2060608@lintelsys.com.au>:

>  Technical wrote:
>  > -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j
>  > ACCEPT
> 
>  For this chain (presumably packets inbound to the network), accept
>  any packets that are part of established TCP connections (ie: a SYN
>  packet for the connection has gone out from the network), or related
>  to UDP packets that have gone out through the firewall.
> 
> > -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-host-prohibited
> 
> Otherwise, reject the packet by sending back an ICMP message telling
> the remote host that communication with its intended target is 
> administratively prohibited.

.."Otherwise, " is not part of this last rule.  "Otherwise, " could
understood as a context where these 2 rules appear as shown. 

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