On Monday 08 July 2002 18:56, Jan Humme wrote: > On Monday 08 July 2002 18:32, Mark Tessier wrote: > > I have a PC running rh7.1., which I'm trying to turn into a firewall. The > > firewall stands between a DMZ and a LAN. I have an elaborate script which > > I've been trying to deploy, but so far no luck. Since I really don't know > > where to begin in terms of diagnosing my problem, I decided to see if I > > could just ping one machine on the DMZ from another on the LAN. > > > > The first thing I did was to set the policy to drop for the forward chain > > as in: > > > > iptables --policy FORWARD DROP > > => Response on my machine (and yours) is: > iptables v1.2.1a: Unknown arg '--policy' > Try 'iptables -h` or 'iptables --help' for more information.
Nonsense. Please accept my sincere and humble apologies: of course your syntax is OK. Jan Humme.
