iptables support?

[Tim]

jdow:

>> This leads off my set of rules:
>> echo "  Clearing any existing rules and setting default policy to DROP.."
>> $IPTABLES -F
>> $IPTABLES -P INPUT DROP
>> $IPTABLES -F INPUT
>> $IPTABLES -P OUTPUT DROP
>> $IPTABLES -F OUTPUT
>> $IPTABLES -P FORWARD DROP
>> $IPTABLES -F FORWARD

Res:
> only need to do -F once no point in all the repeating you are doing, its 
> allready removed by initial -F

Things must have changed since I did my initial tests, then (back on Red
Hat 8.0 Linux).  I'd have thought that the initial flush should have
cleared everything out, but it didn't.  That's why I had several
different specific flush commands.


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