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From: "Michal Kubeček" <mkubecek@suse.cz>
To: netfilter@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "U.Mutlu" <for-gmane@mutluit.com>
Subject: Re: [iptables] misleading print
Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:44:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2026716.mRmHE8f3qx@dhcp91> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jbinrb$2l7$1@dough.gmane.org>

On Monday 05 of December 2011 16:26EN, U.Mutlu wrote:
> I have in my script these statements:
>    iptables -A INPUT  -i lo -j ACCEPT
>    iptables -A OUTPUT -o lo -j ACCEPT
> 
> When doing "iptables -L -n" then the above gets shown as this:
>    ACCEPT     all  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0
> 
> IMHO, this could easily be misinterpreted if one looks
> only at the iptables output, because the crucial info,
> ie. that it applies to the "lo" device only, is missing...

Output of "iptables -L" doesn't show -i and -o matches by default. If 
you want to see them, use "-v" option.

                                                       Michal Kubeèek


  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-12-05 15:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-05 15:26 [iptables] misleading print U.Mutlu
2011-12-05 15:44 ` Jan Engelhardt
2011-12-05 15:44 ` Michal Kubeček [this message]
2012-08-09 22:00   ` Jan Engelhardt

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