On Thursday 22 April 2004 2:53 pm, Oscar Arranz wrote:
> I have a Red Hat box running as a firewall in my network. It's
> working fine, but now I'm doing tests in order to block certain Internet
> traffic. I've added the following rules which should drop packets from
> my PC to a known public IP (a web server):
>
> iptables -A FORWARD -s 192.138.35.110 -d 193.110.128.200 -j DROP
>
> But the packets are not droped because I still can connect to the
> web server.
>
> The default rule for FORWARD chain is DROP
>
> Any ideas?
You say you have added the above rule.
But, what have you added it *to*?
In other words, what other rules do you also have running on the machine?
That information would help us greatly in answering your question.
Regards,
Antony
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