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From: Bertram Scharpf <lists@bertram-scharpf.de>
To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: REJECT target not as policy
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 19:46:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070820174642.GA22613@bart.bertram-scharpf.homelinux.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46C9B8A2.5040201@plouf.fr.eu.org>

Hi,

Am Montag, 20. Aug 2007, 17:52:02 +0200 schrieb Pascal Hambourg:
> Ruben Laban a écrit :
>> 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.
>
> It behaves as expected. REJECT is an extension, not a built-in target, and 
> cannot be used as a policy. Check man iptables.

I wrote "as _I_ expect". Obviously I expected wrong. Now, I
found it in the manpage.

On an other list I was told it were a good idea to set
REJECT as policy. I'm so glad that I asked here. Thank you.

Bertram


-- 
Bertram Scharpf
Stuttgart, Deutschland/Germany
http://www.bertram-scharpf.de


  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-20 17:46 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
2007-08-20 15:52   ` Pascal Hambourg
2007-08-20 17:46     ` Bertram Scharpf [this message]
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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