On Tuesday 2008-07-22 17:06, Grant Taylor wrote: >> + I recommend to clear firewall rules for testing purpose: >> iptables -F >> iptables -P INPUT ACCEPT >> iptables -P OUTPUT ACCEPT >> iptables -P FORWARD ACCEPT > > Based on experience (shooting my self in the foot) I *strongly* > recommend that you set the chain policies *BEFORE* flushing the > table / chains. Just think what will happen if the chain policy is > DENY and you are trying to do this via an SSH connection. I strongly recommend you set the policies WHILE flushing the table. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
