-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ashley thomas wrote:
>A packet having the firewall as destination will have to go thru >input chain rules and packets staring from the firewall (src ip as firewall) >will have to go thru the output rules. > >what about the packets which the firewall forwards. >does it go thru just forwarding rules or does it go thru >the input rules (while entering) , output rules (while exiting) >and also the forwarding rules .. ? Please give up on ipchains, unless you're absolutely stuck with a pre-2.4.x kernel. Then have a look here for Rusty's most excellent ASCII-art answer to your question vis-a-vis iptables: http://netfilter.samba.org/unreliable-guides/packet-filtering-HOWTO/packet-filtering-HOWTO.linuxdoc-6.html - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp - -- http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/pale_blue_dot.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA/AwUBPD5OT79BpdPKTBGtEQJeIwCgsrNhJjJ4aSf86iTFyF2CadK/5H8AoKRf xAGpvm0eoK85LnRridPYv5Aw =vCX1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
