From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Walter H." Subject: User defined chains to reduce/make more readable Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2017 10:03:22 +0200 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=mathemainzel.info; s=dkim11; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:MIME-Version:To:From:Subject:Date:Message-ID; bh=Il28wHGz4iu3RqwGZA6xhUNKSjyRX21q4nq6td918CI=; b=qPj7wUQ7XWlQUGJTfDJennebGEO2o+SnUFoj0p9/gsEgUTl81eHgISZ9BDKIbCzTmMDTmhhjh58Ryy2rq/En202jHxFpZ6jiRMOIvFBYYq10QIdyNsKkn7vN4Xj6Oi7R5OqM6plQRcXQ1DqqLK5cAU3vKlD8ul44l3LUQ6PoGlw=; Sender: netfilter-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: netfilter@vger.kernel.org Hello, I define this chain: -N RESTRICT-HOST -A RESTRICT-HOST -p icmp -j ACCEPT -A RESTRICT-HOST -p udp --dport 123 -j ACCEPT -A RESTRICT-HOST -p udp --sport 32769:65535 --dport 33434:33523 -j ACCEPT -A RESTRICT-HOST -j LOG --log-prefix "xxx: " --log-level 7 -A RESTRICT-HOST -j REJECT and would use it like this: -A FORWARD -i eth0 -o eth1 -s 192.168.1.1 -j RESTRICT-HOST -A FORWARD -i eth0 -o eth1 -s 192.168.11.11 -j RESTRICT-HOST -A FORWARD -i eth0 -o eth1 -s 192.168.111.111 -j RESTRICT-HOST where eth0 is the LAN port and eth1 the WAN port of the router is there a possibility where I can change these rules similar to these: -A FORWARD -i eth0 -o eth1 -s 192.168.1.1 -j RESTRICT-HOST "game-pc: " -A FORWARD -i eth0 -o eth1 -s 192.168.11.11 -j RESTRICT-HOST "office-pc: " -A FORWARD -i eth0 -o eth1 -s 192.168.111.111 -j RESTRICT-HOST "tablet-pc: " and a rule in the chain takes "game-pc: " instead of this "xxx: " as given above? Thanks, Walter