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From: Jason Opperisano <opie@817west.com>
Subject: Re: DROP
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 09:35:42 -0400
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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

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