IPTables default policy not showing on firwall page

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#1 Tue, 03/15/2016 - 11:00
tallsteve

IPTables default policy not showing on firwall page

Just a quickie!

I have just been checking the IPtable stuff and note that nowhere on the IPtables config page does it say the current default policy. There is an input box to change the policy which I suspect also shows the current policy, but it is not clear. Thus I suggest:

Use the word "policy" somewhere as this is the accepted word for the default action mentioned in all the online tutorials.
Have a wee line at the top and bottom (next to the input box) stating the default policy to which all the other rules are effectively overriding. e.g.

Incoming packets (INPUT) - Only applies to packets addressed to this host
Default action (Policy) for INPUT is currently set to DROP.
[Select All][Invert Selection]
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...
[Select All][Invert Selection]
Default action (Policy) for INPUT is currently set to DROP.
[Set Default Action (Policy) To:][Drop [v]]

Just a minor point, but it would help. I SSH'd in to double check with iptables --list as it was unclear which kind of negates the point of a gui front end thingy. :-)

Steve