On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 15:48, Abylai Ospan wrote: > Hello, all ! > > May be this question in FAQ but I can't find it ;-( I have 3 (or more) > identical rules in one (for example - INPUT) chain. > If I do command: > iptables -D FORWARD -s 10.0.0.10 -d 10.0.0.20 -j ACCEPT > > the first rule is deleted only. Is there any command line option to > remove all identical rules in one chain ? > > wbr, Abylai AFAIK, there is no way to make "-D" delete multiple, identical rules. if you have that rule in there multiple times, hit <up-arrow><enter> a few times until you get: iptables: Bad rule (does a matching rule exist in that chain?) if you use a script to flush/reload rules, you normally won't run into this situation. -j -- Jason Opperisano <opie@xxxxxxxxxxx>