>I believe IP chains cruises down the "chain" of rules until one matches.
>then does what ever the target is. It can be another set of rules or
>one of the special actions like REJECT. By putting these lines first the
>packet matches the rule, and rejects the packet and stops. Order is
>important since each rule is examined in the order they appear and if
>matched no other action will be taken.
>
>From the ipchains man page
>
>TARGETS
> A firewall rule specifies criteria for a packet, and a
> target. If the packet does not match, the next rule in
> the chain is the examined; if it does match, then the next
> rule is specified by the value of the target, which can be
> the name of a user-defined chain, or one of the special
> values ACCEPT, DENY, REJECT, MASQ, REDIRECT, or RETURN.
>
>In this case the 0/0 notation must mean all hosts. I am used to seeing
>it as 0.0.0.0/0 but this is more concise. It threw me a little because
>I have not messed with this stuff for a while and had to figure out the
>host src and dest notation.
>
>
>Hope this helps.
Yes they did,thank you very much.
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