Re: [arch-general] iptables forward policy

2012/8/25 Juan Diego Tascón <juantascon@gmail.com>:

Good day,

Hello :)

I'm thinking of setting the default FORWARD policy to ACCEPT as my default INPUT policy is DROP and unless there is a valid FORWARD rule for a given port the packets wont go anywhere. I'm I right on this?

You're wrong. Either a packet goes through the INPUT chain or it goes through the FORWARD chain, depending on its destination. Take a look at this packet flow diagram: http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/wiki/images/f/f0/Iptables.gif Corrado