Frankly I find it better to avoid the logic of the forward rules and just
stick to the inbound and the outbound rules, note that I say inbound, not
input and outbound, not output; there is subtle difference in these names.
Howard.
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On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Ben Donohue wrote:
> hi slugs,
> i'm a bit confused with the following rules...
> this is from the ipchains howto which i'm trying to understand.
>
> please look at these two rules...
> ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.1.0/24 -i eth0 -j good-dmz
> ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.1.0/24 -i ppp0 -j good-bad
>
> are the -i eth0 and -i ppp0 destination interfaces, or are they source
> interfaces?
> what is read between the -s 192.168.1.0/24 and the -i eth0
> and,
> or,
> not,
> what?
> sorry if it's unclear as i'm trying to grasp what exactly is going on
> with the packet that is traversing these rules.
>
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