On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Sebastiaan 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)?
Assuming that: a) eth0 is the external interface; and b) the given IP address is the one which your Cable provider believes is your IP address, then I don't see why it shouldn't. Of course, there's liable to be a really obvious thing missing... <g> -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- #include <disclaimer.h> Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
