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From: "Stephen J. McCracken" <sjmccracky@myrealbox.com>
To: Jason Opperisano <opie@817west.com>
Cc: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: DROP
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 09:34:28 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <42690B74.9060509@myrealbox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050418133542.GA15413@bender.817west.com>

Jason Opperisano wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 07:37:22AM +0200, Brent Clark wrote:

>>I was wondering, if was adviseable to set the default policy for tables 
>>nat and mangle to DROP.
> 
> no.  *all* packets traverse the filter chains--do your filtering
> there.

Just to better understand, don't all packets also pass the mangle table
and only the first packet of a connection the nat table?

Thanks for your enlightenment...

sjm



      parent reply	other threads:[~2005-04-22 14:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-18  5:37 DROP Brent Clark
2005-04-18  6:36 ` DROP Taylor Grant
2005-04-18 13:35 ` DROP Jason Opperisano
2005-04-22 13:54   ` DROP Stephen J. McCracken
2005-04-22 14:28     ` DROP Jason Opperisano
2005-04-22 14:34   ` Stephen J. McCracken [this message]

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