On 08/17/2012 11:58 AM, [email protected] wrote: > On Friday, 17 August, 2012 10:41:40 Tom Eastep wrote: >> shorewall show >> >> instead. That uses 'iptables -L -n -v' which is the only way to see what >> your ruleset is really doing. > > OK. But if the DROP policy is applied to each chain, and that rule is come > to first, why are all my packets not dropped? Firewall seems to be working > OK, but trying to learn something.
The DROP policy is enforced only for packets that fall off the end of the chain -- which should never happen in a Shorewall-generated ruleset. -Tom -- Tom Eastep \ When I die, I want to go like my Grandfather who Shoreline, \ died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like Washington, USA \ all of the passengers in his car http://shorewall.net \________________________________________________
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