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From: Antony Stone <Antony@Soft-Solutions.co.uk>
Subject: Re: forward or masquerade
Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 20:52:03 +0100
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On Wednesday 19 May 2004 8:39 pm, azeem ahmad wrote:

> hi all
> i want to drop some traffic being masqueraded by my lan like 21
> where should i drop these packets either in FORWARD chain or in POSTROUTING
> chain

Dropping packets is a filtering action, therefore it should be done in the 
filter table of the FORWARD chain.

POSTROUTING does not have a filter table - it has a nat table, and it is for 
performing Network Address Translations.

Regards,

Antony.

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