From: Ruben Laban <r.laban@ism.nl>
To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: REJECT target not as policy
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 16:08:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200708201608.39032.r.laban@ism.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070820135206.GA18644@bart.bertram-scharpf.homelinux.com>
On Monday 20 August 2007, Bertram Scharpf wrote:
> on one of my machines the REJECT target doesn't behave as I
> expect. It is inserted into a chain but it is not accepted
> as a policy.
>
> myhost ~ # iptables -L
> Chain INPUT (policy DROP 2 packets, 116 bytes)
> pkts bytes target prot opt in out source
> destination ...
> 0 0 REJECT tcp -- any any anywhere
> anywhere ... ...
>
> But:
>
> myhost ~ # iptables -v -t filter -P INPUT REJECT
> iptables: Bad policy name
>
>
> How comes this? I guess it is a kernel option I have to
> change. But which?
The REJECT target is only valid when either the tcp or udp module is loaded.
Hence it cannot be used as a policy.
HTH
--
Ruben
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-20 14:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-20 13:52 REJECT target not as policy Bertram Scharpf
2007-08-20 14:08 ` Ruben Laban [this message]
2007-08-20 15:52 ` Pascal Hambourg
2007-08-20 17:46 ` Bertram Scharpf
2007-08-20 18:43 ` Pascal Hambourg
2007-08-20 19:11 ` Rob Sterenborg
2007-08-20 20:27 ` Pascal Hambourg
2007-08-21 5:26 ` Rob Sterenborg
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