On Wednesday 10 July 2002 8:36 pm, Faruk Grozdanic wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to block broadcast IP traffic, that is IP traffic that has > 255.255.255.255 in the destination feild. I pushed a rule: > > iptables -I FORWARD -i eth4 -d 255.255.255.255 -j DROP > > and it did not filter these out.
Broadcasts do not go through routers, therefore they will enter the INPUT table of your firewall, not the FORWARD table. Antony.
