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From: Jamie Pratt <jamie@nucdc.org>
Subject: Re: simple questions to finally understand netfilter
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 05:33:51 -0500
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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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