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From: patrick conlin <patrick@wechsler.com>
Subject: general policy question
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2002 10:35:25 -0400
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does one generally set the -P on their mangle table chains to DROP, even if
you're not using them for anything?

usual procedure says set -P on all chains to DROP and allow what's
necessary, but if you're not using your mangle table chains for anything and
you set -P to DROP (on the iptables -t mangle PREROUTING chain, for example)
all packets get dropped.

you guessed it, I just did this and got booted from the machine. Now I have
to wait until I can go home and reboot my firewall before I can play with it
any more.

Just wondering how everyone else handles this.

-=p=-