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From: Frank Gruellich <frank@der-frank.org>
To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: Need help with basic understanding of IPtables
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 22:01:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041025200130.GS29776@der-frank.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <33D73F71797CC09A67671396@[10.169.6.246]>

* Kenneth Porter <shiva@sewingwitch.com> 25. Oct 04:
> --On Monday, October 25, 2004 3:38 PM -0400 Jason Opperisano 
> <opie@817west.com> wrote:
> >a local IP address on this machine
> Also note that this includes virtual interfaces, tunnel interfaces (the 
> tun/tap driver, typically used in VPN's), and the loopback interface. It's 
> not just NIC's.

IP numbers belong to the IP stack and have nothing to do with
interfaces.  This idea is completely useless, forget it, this will make
things (eg. routing) a lot more understandable.  From this point of
view, Jasons posting is IMHO very clear.

 Regards, Frank.
-- 
Sigmentation fault


  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-10-25 20:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-25 18:41 Need help with basic understanding of IPtables Bob Von Ilten
2004-10-25 19:38 ` Jason Opperisano
2004-10-25 19:50   ` Kenneth Porter
2004-10-25 19:54     ` Jason Opperisano
2004-10-25 20:01     ` Frank Gruellich [this message]
2004-10-25 21:23       ` Kenneth Porter
2004-10-25 22:14         ` Les Mikesell
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-10-25 18:49 Daniel Chemko

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