rc.firewall 'simple' question

Radek Kozlowski radek at raadradd.com
Sun Jan 18 23:29:41 PST 2004


On Monday, January 19, 2004, 2:00:21 AM, Rishi Chopra wrote:

> Forgive the stupid question, but why are the 'rfc1918' and 'draft 
> manning' sections repeated in the default rc.firewall file?  Does this
> have something to do with the natd statement in between them?  I 
> understand the rules are processed (added) sequentially, so am I missing
> something?

They are not repeated, they just look very similar to each other.
Notice that the first part consists of rules 'from ANY to [...]' and
the second part 'from [...] to ANY'.

-Radek



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