On Saturday 29 March 2003 02:29 pm, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > i was just summarizing the behavior of iptables and i'm puzzled > by a contardiction between the man page and oskar's tutorial. > > regarding possible chain policies, oskar lists DROP, ACCEPT > and REJECT. > > the man page, however, suggests all of ACCEPT, DROP, QUEUE > or RETURN, which seems a bit odd. > > since i've only used DROP or ACCEPT until now, i'm not sure > what the right answer is. > > anyone? Well, try them... ;^) I am only able to set DROP or ACCEPT. Any other policy I try to set replies with "iptables: Bad policy name". This is with v1.2.5 and v1.2.6a. j