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From: Antony Stone <Antony@Soft-Solutions.co.uk>
To: netfilter <netfilter@lists.netfilter.org>
Subject: Re: user defined chains
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 20:55:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200407122055.15961.Antony@Soft-Solutions.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f51b72bc040712114970f47399@mail.gmail.com>

On Monday 12 July 2004 7:49 pm, Payal Rathod wrote:

> Hi,
> If I want to design a firewall for a network on a high end machine
> with lot of RAM and swap, is there any real use of user defined
> chains? I find them difficult so I would like to use only the built-in
> chains. Is that ok?

Yes.

Antony.




(Okay, for a fuller answer, use user-defined chains if you want to, don't use 
them if you prefer - it makes no difference to netfilter so long as you can 
understand the rules enough to get them to do what you want them to.)

-- 
Users don't know what they want until they see what they get.

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2004-07-12 19:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-12 18:49 user defined chains Payal Rathod
2004-07-12 19:51 ` John A. Sullivan III
2004-07-12 20:02   ` Antony Stone
2004-07-12 19:55 ` Antony Stone [this message]

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