Why does iptables drop packets when there is a rule to accept them
Issue
- iptables has a rule to accept traffic, but there are messages logged for packets being dropped.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- iptables rules to allow traffic
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -i bond0 -m state --state NEW,RELATED,ESTABLISHED -p tcp --sport 80 -j ACCEPT
- packets being logged as dropped by iptables.
kernel: Dropped by firewall input: IN=bond0 OUT= MAC=00:17:a4:77:50:bc:70:81:05:61:0e:20:08:00 SRC=X.X.X.X DST=X.X.X.X LEN=52 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=52 ID=7741 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=80 DPT=44213 WINDOW=6 RES=0x00 ACK FIN URGP=0
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