On Tuesday 09 July 2002 6:03 am, caricand.jean-michel wrote: > I have a local network with 10.0.2.0 address and 255.255.254.0 netmask. > > My firewall have IP 10.0.2.130 on eth0. > My station have IP 10.0.2.2. > > I configure my firewall for drop the ping from the station with 1 rules : > > # iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -s 10.0.2.2 -p icmp -j DROP > > When I ping the firewall from my station (ping 10.0.2.130) , I receive an > response from the serveur > > Why ? > > What is the problem ? My netmask ?
No; netfilter can handle any netmask you like - even very strange ones. What is the routing table on: a) your firewall b) machine 10.0.2.2 Antony
