Re: match many protocol in a rule

[Grant Taylor <gtaylor@riverviewtech.net>]

Curby wrote:
> I was looking for a similar feature (as it exists in ipfw) but I don't
> think that's possible in iptables.  If you want to specify multiple
> protocols for the purpose of ending with a consistent action or set of
> actions, you could make the multiple rules jump to a custom chain
> which then performs the actions.  However if you want to specify
> multiple protocols to reduce the number of rules, I don't think that
> will work.

I also thought about matching the protocols and jumping to a sub-chain. 
  However that won't work the way you want it to b/c (last I checked) 
you have to specify a protocol to be able to specify a port.  So, you 
might as well match both the protocol and the port on the same rule.



Grant. . . .