Re: iptables rules equivalence

From: Timo Voipio (oh_hami_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 07/28/03 

Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 10:41:15 +0300

H. S. wrote:

> Aren't these two rules the same?
> (i) $IPTABLES -A INPUT -i lo -s $UNIVERSE -d $UNIVERSE -j ACCEPT
> (ii) $IPTABLES -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT

Yes they are. If source and destination are not specified they are assumed
to be 0.0.0.0/0.

-Timo 

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