On 19 Jun 2001, Guy Geens wrote: > IMHO, your cable company has a badly designed network. I have a cable > modem as well, and it filters out all of the traffic which is not sent > to my IP address. > That is true. However, it seems like a good idea to filter that way. Will this do the job? iptables -P INPUT DROP iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -d ! 212.127.242.126 -j DROP
as the first rule of the input chain (and after that a dozen other rules)? I am no hero when it comes to iptables (still a bit newbie) and it is a bad thing when you think a firewall works when it does not. Thanks, Sebastiaan
