On Tuesday 28 July 2009 08:19:19 Billy Crook wrote: [snip lots of good advice] > And here's my config, which is longer than I'd like, but as short as > it can be and still do the job. You might change :FORWARD ACCEPT to > :FORWARD REJECT if you don't ever plan to act as a router. 1. Allow me to introduce my friend, the multiport match, which will indeed shorten your rules and still do the job. :) 2. REJECT is not a valid policy, see DROP. -- Offlist mail to this address is discarded unless "/dev/rob0" or "not-spam" is in Subject: header -- 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