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authorDuncan Roe <duncan_roe@optusnet.com.au>2019-12-06 13:37:12 +1100
committerFlorian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>2019-12-06 07:49:15 +0100
commita8347553432c1852925ec51cc66b6676b81fbfec (patch)
tree184ca9593bf45753cb9a74ec87313c2319217379 /doc
parentbc75661e787b1ba5ba67610a8bd08b5a6db314e5 (diff)
doc: Clarify conditions under which a reject verdict is permissible
A phrase like "input chain" is a throwback to xtables documentation. In nft, chains are containers for rules. They do have a type, but what's important here is which hook each uses. Signed-off-by: Duncan Roe <duncan_roe@optusnet.com.au> Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
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@@ -171,8 +171,9 @@ ____
A reject statement is used to send back an error packet in response to the
matched packet otherwise it is equivalent to drop so it is a terminating
-statement, ending rule traversal. This statement is only valid in the input,
-forward and output chains, and user-defined chains which are only called from
+statement, ending rule traversal. This statement is only valid in base chains
+using the *input*,
+*forward* or *output* hooks, and user-defined chains which are only called from
those chains.
.different ICMP reject variants are meant for use in different table families