Recent content by SDawn

Interesting ... the same thing happened: my rules disappeared and the iptables -L was reset to the original. This time I definitely did not reboot the router or otherwise do anything to it. I wonder why it does that. Anyway, I'll look into writing a script file under /jffs/scripts/ or...

Many thanks! Things work properly now. I would love to edit my original subject header to say something like, "SOLVED: block OUTGOING packets FROM machine on LAN using the FORWARD chain" or something succinct. I don't see a way to do that. If there isn't a way, then I'll just leave it.

Thank you very much, Jack Yaz! Your advice was exactly the breakthrough I needed. I was successfully able to block my internet access just for specific web sites. I was wondering one more thing - after a while, my settings disappeared. Checking with "iptables -L" no longer showed the various...

Here is the full output of iptables when I have put in all those commands: Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT) num target prot opt source destination 1 Parental_Deviceblock all -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 2 INPUT_PING icmp -- 0.0.0.0/0...

I'd appreciate any help regarding iptables basics, which I was sure that I had grasped, but somehow things are not working. I checked in this forum and other forums but was not able to find anything to explain my problem: For testing purposes, rather than putting my changes into a user script...