2012/8/25 Juan Diego Tascón <juantascon@xxxxxxxxx>: > Good day, Hello :) > I'm thinking of > setting the default FORWARD policy to ACCEPT as my default INPUT > policy is DROP and unless there is a valid FORWARD rule for a given > port the packets wont go anywhere. I'm I right on this? You're wrong. Either a packet goes through the INPUT chain or it goes through the FORWARD chain, depending on its destination. Take a look at this packet flow diagram: http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/wiki/images/f/f0/Iptables.gif Corrado