On Tuesday 02 December 2003 10:53, Chris Brenton wrote: > On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 10:33, Michael Gale wrote: > > Inserting the following to the bottom of my firewall script: > > > > ### Causes all traffic to or from the box on either interface to be > > dropped regardless of all other rules. > > > > iptables --policy INPUT DROP > > iptables --policy OUTPUT DROP > > iptables --policy FORWARD DROP > > Try: > iptables -P INPUT DROP > iptables -P OUTPUT DROP > iptables -P FORWARD DROP > > Works for me on multiple firewalls using multiple interfaces. > OK, now *I'm* confused. Aren't they the same command? Jeff