At 11:42 AM 9/9/2001 -0500, Petteri Lyytinen wrote:
>On Sun, 9 Sep 2001, Nick Simicich wrote:
>
>> [snip] with iptables, forward only works on forwarded packets and
>> ignores input. This is different from ipchains.
>
>How is that different from ipchains? I read through the ipchains HOWTO
>and manual pages but, couldn't find anything definitive.
ipchains processed all packets coming *into* the machine from anywhere
against the input tables. So a packet traversing your machine would go
through input, forward, and output. iptables uses the input and output
tables for the machine's individual communication, and forward for the
packets that use the machine as a router.
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