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From: Jamie Pratt <jamie@nucdc.org>
To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: simple questions to finally understand netfilter
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 05:33:51 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FC5D30F.1060106@nucdc.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1069949657.9126.55.camel@webmail.aeropostal.com.ve>



Juan Hernandez wrote:
> Another question...
> 
> On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 12:04, Ralf Spenneberg wrote:
> 
>>Am Don, 2003-11-27 um 16.41 schrieb Juan Hernandez:
>>
>>
>>>1) This rule tells netfilter to drop any packet forwarding I guess
>>>iptables -P FORWARD DROP
>>
>>This is a default rule. All packets not accepted or dropped by other
>>rules will be dropped by this one.
> 
> 
> If this drops everything else, how come there's access to the webserver
> in that same machine?? It's not that I dont want it, its just that im
> curious on what does this rule drops exactly cause I can still access my
> webserver 
> 
> Juan
> 
> 


What kind of rules/policies are defined for INPUT? (if none, or -P 
ALLOW, thats why..)

jamie

> 
> 

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-11-27 10:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-27 15:41 simple questions to finally understand netfilter Juan Hernandez
2003-11-27 16:04 ` Ralf Spenneberg
2003-11-27 16:08   ` Juan Hernandez
2003-11-27 16:14   ` Juan Hernandez
2003-11-27 10:33     ` Jamie Pratt [this message]
2003-11-27 17:17     ` Jeffrey Laramie
2003-11-27 17:49     ` Ralf Spenneberg
2003-11-27 17:53       ` Juan Hernandez

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