RE: First rule in the list seems to allow everything?

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iptables -nvL output

Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT 214K packets, 11M bytes)
 pkts bytes target     prot opt in     out     source
destination                                              

Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT 0 packets, 0 bytes)
 pkts bytes target     prot opt in     out     source
destination                                              

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT 195K packets, 356M bytes)
 pkts bytes target     prot opt in     out     source
destination      

-----Original Message-----
From: netfilter-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:netfilter-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rob
Sterenborg
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 10:09 AM
To: netfilter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: First rule in the list seems to allow everything?

On Wed, January 25, 2006 15:58, Arthur DiSegna wrote:
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I set my IPTABLES policy to clear all rules and then drop everything 
> before defining a policy. I suspect this is the default procedure 
> everyone uses from the looks of the web. Anwyay, when I run iptables 
> -L -n the first line reads:
>
> target     prot opt source               destination
> ACCEPT     all  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0
> RULES      --------			---	------
> RULES      --------			---	------
>
> Doing an nmap scan on the box only shows the open ports I specified in

> the ruleset. This is good. However, the Accept all above in the first 
> line has me a little confused. What is happening here?

Try listing the rules with :
iptables -nvL


Gr,
Rob







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