Doubt about iptables rules.
Gawain Lynch
gawain.lynch at bigpond.com
Wed May 31 04:41:47 UTC 2006
On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 23:22 -0300, Vinicius wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On the chain RH-Firewall-1-INPUT, what's the mean of the rules number 1
> and 2, please?
>
[SNIP]
>
> Chain RH-Firewall-1-INPUT (2 references)
> num target prot opt source destination
> 1 ACCEPT all -- anywhere anywhere
> 2 ACCEPT icmp -- anywhere anywhere icmp any
> "
If you try "iptables -L -v" you will see that number 1 is to allow all
traffic on the loopback adapter (lo)
As for line number 2, this accepts *all* ICMP traffic. Not ideal, just
the way it is :-)
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