On Monday 08 July 2002 19:23, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > Jan Humme wrote: > > On Monday 08 July 2002 18:32, Mark Tessier wrote: > > [...] > > > > 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. > > Not on a 1.2.6a (or any version I've ever used) it's not. If you enter > > iptables --policy > > without any arguments, then you'll get that error. Enter the line as > quoted and it'll work perfectly. > > > Suppose you mean: > > #iptables -P FORWARD DROP ? > > RFTM. -P is shorthand for --policy, as iptables --help would quickly > have shown.
Thank you. I deserved and needed to hear that. Jan Humme.
