Re: Could someone please explain this output?

[<dude@deletia.com>]

Could you post the results of


iptables -L -v

?

Thankx


On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Jor-el wrote:

>Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 01:23:08 -0500 (CDT)
>From: Jor-el <jorel@trillian.megadodo.umb>
>Reply-To: jorel@austin.rr.com
>To: debian-firewall@lists.debian.org
>Subject: Could someone please explain this output?
>Resent-From: debian-firewall@lists.debian.org
>
>Hi,
>
>	Here is what I get on my Potato system :
>
>#ipchains -L input
>Chain input (policy DENY):
>target     prot opt     source                destination           ports
>ACCEPT     all  ------  anywhere             anywhere              n/a
>DENY       all  ----l-  127.0.0.0/8          anywhere              n/a
>ACCEPT     all  ------  localnet/24          anywhere              n/a
>DENY       all  ----l-  localnet/24          anywhere              n/a
>ACCEPT     all  ------  anywhere             _my_hostname_here
>n/a
>ACCEPT     all  ------  anywhere             255.255.255.255       n/a
>DENY       all  ----l-  anywhere             anywhere              n/a
>
>	How do I interpret this output? For example, the lines handling
>the source = localnet/24 - will they let a packet from outside pass in or
>be rejected? Why are there two lines? This configuration is the result of
>me doing a 'apt-get install ipmasq' - so there really hasnt been any
>customization by me.
>
>Thanks,
>Jor-el
>
>
>