-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 24 May 2006 10:34:23 -0500 Bruno Wolff III <bruno@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 10:46:39 -0400, > CodeHeads <codeheads@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Ed, > > Thank you, That what I was looking for to verify what I have learned so far. > > > > Question on entering IP address in IPTables, say I want to add a range to > > block the whole ip range of 10.0.0.0 (example of course) > > Can I do this: > > $iptables -A FORWARD -p tcp -s 10. -i eth0 -j DROP > > OR > > $iptables -A FORWARD -p tcp -s 10.* -i eth0 -j DROP > > Either > $iptables -A FORWARD -p tcp -s 10.0.0.0/8 -i eth0 -j DROP > or > $iptables -A FORWARD -p tcp -s 10.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 -i eth0 -j DROP > will work. Thank you Bruno. Just wanted to verify about the wild cards. Sorry for all the questions, IP's confuse me a bit. :) LOL Say if I have a range of 222.96.0.0 - 222.122.255.255 Is there a calculator that will tell me the netmask?? Will -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEdIKLfw3TK8jhZrsRAg9PAKDKEOBc+B6hV98Yk14O7pt55+YlJwCg4f1o 3HgXuIWAXRXipVlCR7AR4c0= =zm19 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----