On Friday 21 November 2003 11:59 am, Nick wrote: > Antony, I thought I had it all figured out. > Apparently, I don't... :-( > > I thought it should be in INPUT so that the router > 'gets' the incoming request, and once it has it, it > will FORWARD it to the LAN server. No no no no no no no :)) Packets being routed do not go through FORWARD (you didn't used to use ipchains, did you? Your idea is the way that system used to work...) > Now, if this rule should be in the FORWARD, what > should I have in INPUT in order to acept NEW FTP > requests ? Or is FORWARD doing this automatically ? See http://iptables-tutorial.frozentux.net/iptables-tutorial.html#TRAVERSINGOFTABLES > I promised that the previous message would be the last > one. Sorry for breaking my promise :-) No problem. You'll probably have another one in a week or so, when you want to do something even more exciting :) Antony. -- Because it completely breaks the way people normally read things. Why is top-posting bad? It means writing your reply above whatever you're replying to. What does top-post mean? Please don't top-post in email replies. Please reply to the list; please don't CC me.
