jdow: >> This leads off my set of rules: >> echo " Clearing any existing rules and setting default policy to DROP.." >> $IPTABLES -F >> $IPTABLES -P INPUT DROP >> $IPTABLES -F INPUT >> $IPTABLES -P OUTPUT DROP >> $IPTABLES -F OUTPUT >> $IPTABLES -P FORWARD DROP >> $IPTABLES -F FORWARD Res: > only need to do -F once no point in all the repeating you are doing, its > allready removed by initial -F Things must have changed since I did my initial tests, then (back on Red Hat 8.0 Linux). I'd have thought that the initial flush should have cleared everything out, but it didn't. That's why I had several different specific flush commands. -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
