I appreciate the diagram, it looks really flash, but would it help to split it into perhaps 3 diagrams to cover the 3 default tables, filter, nat and mangle. These tables have different default chains.
On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, George Vieira wrote: > After spending a couple of hours figuring out and drawing this diagram, do > you guys think this looks too confusing or is there any inconsistences > anybody may have noticed? > > The drawing has been made this way so people know that rules are applied in > both directions. In other words, prerouting rules take place when entering > the ethernet card from the wire above and from below too where it may have > been forwarded from another device, etc.etc.. Words for "Wire" etc.. not > placed yet. > > http://www.lancentre.com.au/iptables.jpg > > Any comments, suggestions ? Happy to take this off the list. > > thanks, > George Vieira > Systems Manager > Citadel Computer Systems P/L > -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people Contact detail at http://www.lannetlinux.com "We are either doing something, or we are not. 'Talking about' is a subset of 'not'." -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
