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From: Ralf <rm@amitrader.com>
To: netfilter@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Error when adding an entry to mangle/PREROUTING
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 10:59:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <gmrj5a$i9t$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49909453.18068e0a.3fb8.fffff08f@mx.google.com>

Gilad Benjamini wrote:
> Quoting from man iptables: " This  target is only valid in the INPUT,
> FORWARD and OUTPUT chains"
> 
> Since the validation is done by the kernel module, you don't see the error
> message directly, but rather via syslog; e.g. in my case, in
> /var/log/messages you see " kernel: ip_tables: REJECT target: only valid in
> filter table, not mangle"

DROP works, but REJECT does not work.
Maybe it is a bug/oversight, because IMHO I don't see any reason
why REJECT shouldn't be allowed here.


>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: netfilter-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:netfilter-
>> owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Ralf
>> Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 12:08 PM
>> To: netfilter@vger.kernel.org
>> Subject: Error when adding an entry to mangle/PREROUTING
>>
>> The following command brings an error ("iptables: Invalid argument"):
>>
>>    $IPTABLES -t mangle -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 9999 -j REJECT
>>
>> What's wrong here?


      reply	other threads:[~2009-02-10  9:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-09 20:08 Error when adding an entry to mangle/PREROUTING Ralf
2009-02-09 20:38 ` Gilad Benjamini
2009-02-10  9:59   ` Ralf [this message]

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