Re: Is the order of the rules entered in iptables important?

[David Lang <david.lang () digitalinsight com>]

there are a few firewalls that apply rules in a 'best fit' strategy rather
then in order. Raptor (now Symantec Enterprise Firewall) is one example
that does this.

there was a debate on the pros and cons of this a year or so ago.

David Lang

On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Christopher Hicks wrote:

> On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Kenny G. Dubuisson, Jr. wrote:
> > does the order in which rules are added for an iptables table matter?
>
> Yes.  I'm not aware of many firewall ruleset system where the order
> doesn't matter.
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