Bad mistake on my part actually, and for some strange reason, people tend to discover bugs "in group" (you're the 3rd person talking about this in less than a week;)). In other words, I have this fixed locally, will update when I get the rest of the material finished. On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, cc wrote: > Hi, > > Can someone clarify whether I've made a mistake or > mis understood the tutorial? I'm using the latest > iptables (1.2.8 I believe) on a Linux 2.4.22 machine. > > In the tutorial, it says -p tcp,udp is permitted; > but the manpage states nothing of the sort(but > implies that it can't be done that way). > > In the past, I've been using two lines for both > tcp and udp settings. I just decided to re-read > on the tutorial and noticed that I could use > the tcp,udp (or udp,tcp) way. Saves space. > > But it doesn't work. I googled and came up with > an archived message stating that there is indeed > an error, but that was two years ago. > > If it is indeed true that I can't specify protocols > like that, is there a patch that can allow me to > do this? > > Thanks for the clarification. > > > > > ---- Oskar Andreasson http://www.frozentux.net http://iptables-tutorial.frozentux.net http://ipsysctl-tutorial.frozentux.net mailto:blueflux@xxxxxxxxxxx