[Centos] Messing around with iptables
scty Library
sctylib2004 at yahoo.com
Thu Aug 12 18:06:41 UTC 2004
No, that did not work either.
--- Dag Wieers <dag at wieers.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, scty Library wrote:
>
> > I am messing around with iptables, trying to learn
> how
> > it works so that I can build my self a
> router/firewall
> > and mabey a VPN. Anyway I tried to use a command
> on my
> > Desktop CentOS3 machine.
> >
> > "iptables -A INPUT -s 127.0.0.1 -p icmp -j DROP"
> >
> > now the command seems to have went through because
> I
> > didn't get any errors, but when I go to ping
> 127.0.0.1
> > I am getting a response and my packet loss is 0%.
> It
> > should be 100% packet loss.
> >
> > Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong. I am
> not
> > trying to do anything yet, just want to learn by
> > exploring.
>
> Try:
>
> iptables -A INPUT -d 127.0.0.1 -p icmp -j DROP
>
> Since you're pinging 127.0.0.1, that's the
> destination (-d) address, not
> the source (-s) address.
>
> -- dag wieers, dag at wieers.com,
> http://dag.wieers.com/ --
> [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are
> transmission errors]
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