On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 02:54:11PM +0200, Sebastian Wolfgarten wrote:
> I might not help your with your
> netmeeting stuff but I don't get
> the point to your filtering lines...
> you start with:
> 
> iptables -P INPUT DROP
> iptables -P OUTPUT DROP
> iptables -P FORWARD DROP
> 
> --> that's okay, create a default policy
> 
> iptables -X
> iptables -F
> iptables -t nat -F
> iptables -t nat -X
> 
> -> why do you flush and delete the
> user defined chains? I mean it must
> be exactly vice versa, or? You flush it
> then you create the default policy, right?

Flushing doesn't affect policies. That's just establishing a stable base
state (don't allow anything anywhere, get rid of any existing
rules/chains, start fresh, build from there). That's what you should do.

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