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From: Pascal Hambourg <pascal.mail@plouf.fr.eu.org>
Subject: Re: REJECT target not as policy
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:52:02 +0200
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Hello,

Ruben Laban a =E9crit :
> On Monday 20 August 2007, Bertram Scharpf wrote:
>=20
>>on one of my machines the REJECT target doesn't behave as I
>>expect. It is inserted into a chain but it is not accepted
>>as a policy.

It behaves as expected. REJECT is an extension, not a built-in target,=20
and cannot be used as a policy. Check man iptables.

> The REJECT target is only valid when either the tcp or udp module is lo=
aded.=20

AFAIK, REJECT is not dependant on tcp or udp and can be used with any=20
protocol. Only the "--reject-with tcp-reset" option can be used only=20
with tcp.