On Friday 21 November 2003 12:38 pm, Antony Stone wrote something completely stupid and sent it to the list. I said "packets being routed do not go through FORWARD". This completely wrong, and I should have said "packets being routed do not go through INPUT". They definitely do go through FORWARD. Corrected version of my previous response below :) > 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 INPUT (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#TRAVERSINGOFT >ABLES > > > 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. -- How should I know if it works? That's what beta testers are for. I only coded it. - Linus Torvalds Please reply to the list; please don't CC me.
