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Old 04-21-2012
how to allow incoming UDP packets with iptables

I am looking for an iptables command to allow incoming UDP packets for my Linux server

also is there a command I can use to set the default action for outgoing packets to accept?

Thank you
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Old 04-22-2012
change default policy:
Code:
iptables -P OUTPUT ACCEPT

allow all UDP
Code:
iptables -I INPUT -p udp -j ACCEPT

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