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From: Jakov Sosic <jsosic@jsosic.homeunix.org>
To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: why DROP in PREROUTING
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 16:52:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061027165256.57d2e6d3@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4541D89E.1080507@freemail.hu>

On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 11:59:58 +0200
Gáspár Lajos <swifty@freemail.hu> wrote:

> You can filter all of these packets at one point no matter where they 
> coming from and going to....

Oscar is against it in his tutorial, he even says a reason. If I
remember correctly, it's beacuse only the first packet hits that rule,
and others get the same action without further checking, and that's not
a good idea to do.



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      reply	other threads:[~2006-10-27 14:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-27  9:45 why DROP in PREROUTING Brent Clark
2006-10-27  9:59 ` Gáspár Lajos
2006-10-27 14:52   ` Jakov Sosic [this message]

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