complement of an IP address range rejected by iptables in F14

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On 01/13/2011 07:30 PM, dave perry wrote:

> 
> POSTROUTING chain rules
> /sbin/iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth1 -j MASQUERADE
> /sbin/iptables -A FORWARD -s 192.168.1.0/24 -j ACCEPT
> /sbin/iptables -A FORWARD -d 192.168.1.0/24 -j ACCEPT
> /sbin/iptables -A FORWARD -s ! 192.168.1.0/24 -j DROP
> 

> 

  Any reason you don't drop everything by default in which case the rule
is redundant ? Or do you and you're being super careful ?

   iptables -P FORWARD DROP # etc for all tables