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From: "Gáspár Lajos" <swifty@freemail.hu>
To: Netfilter IPtableMailinglist <netfilter@lists.netfilter.org>
Subject: Policy targets...
Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 12:14:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <464441F7.3050808@freemail.hu> (raw)

Hi all,

I was reading the iptables manual because I needed the correct arguments 
of the policy (-P) command.
Here it is:

       -P, --policy chain target
              Set the policy for the chain to the given target.  See the 
section TARGETS for the legal targets.  Only built-in (non-user-defined) 
chains can
              have policies, and neither built-in nor user-defined 
chains can be policy targets.

So I checked the TARGETS.

TARGETS
       A  firewall rule specifies criteria for a packet, and a target.  
If the packet does not match, the next rule in the chain is the 
examined; if it does
       match, then the next rule is specified by the value of the 
target, which can be the name of a user-defined chain or one of the 
special values ACCEPT,
       DROP, QUEUE, or RETURN.

My question is: What is the difference between the ACCEPT and the RETURN 
target in policy ??? :D

Thanx.

Swifty


             reply	other threads:[~2007-05-11 10:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-11 10:14 Gáspár Lajos [this message]
2007-05-11 10:21 ` Policy targets Pedro Gonçalves
2007-05-11 10:34   ` Gáspár Lajos
     [not found]     ` <46444B26.6010206@gmail.com>
2007-05-11 11:03       ` Gáspár Lajos
     [not found]         ` <46488357.90209@vlsmaps.com>
2007-05-15  9:03           ` Gáspár Lajos
2007-05-15 11:13 ` Petr Pisar
2007-05-21 16:13   ` Gáspár Lajos

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