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From: Jason Opperisano <opie@817west.com>
To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: DROP
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 09:35:42 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050418133542.GA15413@bender.817west.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42634792.2070307@eccotours.dyndns.org>

On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 07:37:22AM +0200, Brent Clark wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I was wondering, if was adviseable to set the default policy for tables 
> nat and mangle to DROP.

no.  *all* packets traverse the filter chains--do your filtering
there.

this question seems to come up every so often, and the idea is
absolutely indefensible, IMHO.

-j

--
"Tom Tucker: And now time for the Ollie weather report.
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        --Family Guy


  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-04-18 13:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-18  5:37 DROP Brent Clark
2005-04-18  6:36 ` DROP Taylor Grant
2005-04-18 13:35 ` Jason Opperisano [this message]
2005-04-22 13:54   ` DROP Stephen J. McCracken
2005-04-22 14:28     ` DROP Jason Opperisano
2005-04-22 14:34   ` DROP Stephen J. McCracken

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