Hi netfilter-request! On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, netfilter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Message: 2 > From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Sig=FE=F3r_Jar=F0arson?= <cshobe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: netfilter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Error message change request > Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 20:56:03 -0400 > > Hey all, > > I have a quick request - a change to an error message. > > A friend I sold a server to called me insistant that iptables was broken on= > =20 > the firewall I sold him. > > He was trying the following, and got the following message: > > superuser root@hydrogen:/home/root > # /bin/iptables -A INPUT -s 0.0.0.0/0 -d 0.0.0.0/0 --dport 22 -j ACCEPT > iptables v1.2.7a: Unknown arg `--dport' > Try `iptables -h' or 'iptables --help' for more information. > > I figured out that he missed -p tcp, but the error is misleading. > > I think it should instead say something like "iptables v1.2.7a: Argument=20 > `--dport' cannot be used in this context" or something. > > =2D-=20 > Sig=FE=F3r Jar=F0arson > cshobe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Hi, the answer is: .... 42.Just kidding # /bin/iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 22 -s 0/0 -d 0/0 -j ACCEPT Best regards Frederic -- B.O.F.H excuse of the day: Domain controller not responding http://www.seclab.jp
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