Re: iptables

[tony.chamberlain@xxxxxxxxx]

I am afraid I still don't quite understand.  If I use -i eth0 that would be all the IP addresses coming in on
eth0, not just mine (eg 10.0.0.80).  Or am I missing something?

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Message: 9
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 22:15:44 -0400
From: Robert Locke <lists@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: ip tables
To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
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On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 01:26 +0000, tony.chamberlain@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> Any way to have IP tables always allow itself (its IP address) without
> having to change the
> table every time you change a machine's IP address?  Besides 127.0.0.1
> that is, because,
> say a machine is 10.0.0.80.  If 10.0.0.80 is not in IP tables, then
> you can still send if you send
> to 127.0.0.1 but not if you send, as we sometimes have to, from
> 10.0.0.80 to 10.0.0.80.
> If you put 10.0.0.80 and then change the IP address you have to change
> IP table.
> 

Take a look at the -i and -o options and simply assign them to the
"interface", say eth0....

HTH,

--Rob