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Subject: Re: help me
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2005 08:45:27 -0500
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On Monday 04 July 2005 05:47, Christoph Georgi wrote:
> make the default policy of the incoming chain (input) drop, but allow
> established and related traffic, and allow all outgoing traffic by
> setting the default policy to allow for the output chain (although
> it's adviced to specify the outgoing traffic further..)

Why, and by whom, is that advised?

> umar draz wrote:
> > [snip]
> > how i can do it

All this is clearly described in the Packet Filtering HOWTO. Or you can 
use one of many ready-made scripts without bothering to learn how 
firewalls work.
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