From: Florian Westphal Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 11:03:00 +0000 (+0200) Subject: iptables.8: --policy is either ACCEPT or DROP X-Git-Tag: v1.6.0~97 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=69f3f846807654163bedba2b939f370838ae141c;p=thirdparty%2Fiptables.git iptables.8: --policy is either ACCEPT or DROP its enforced by both by libiptc and kernel. Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal --- diff --git a/iptables/iptables.8.in b/iptables/iptables.8.in index c6115563..8ef222e5 100644 --- a/iptables/iptables.8.in +++ b/iptables/iptables.8.in @@ -224,10 +224,8 @@ any rules. If no argument is given, it will attempt to delete every non-builtin chain in the table. .TP \fB\-P\fP, \fB\-\-policy\fP \fIchain target\fP -Set the policy for the chain to the given target. See the section \fBTARGETS\fP -for the legal targets. Only built-in (non-user-defined) chains can have -policies, and neither built-in nor user-defined chains can be policy -targets. +Set the policy for the built-in (non-user-defined) chain to the given target. +The policy target must be either \fBACCEPT\fP or \fBDROP\fP. .TP \fB\-E\fP, \fB\-\-rename\-chain\fP \fIold\-chain new\-chain\fP Rename the user specified chain to the user supplied name. This is