News item 2007-10-26 - Koos van den Hout

2007-10-26
And in trying to firewall IPv6 I found that INPUT and FORWARD are really separate. From the docs:
the built-in chains INPUT (for packets coming into the box itself), FORWARD (for packets being routed through the box), and OUTPUT (for locally-generated packets).
So if I want to set a policy for both the local machine and the machines behind it I need to set those rules in both INPUT and FORWARD.
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