The RETURN target will cause the current packet to stop
traveling through the chain where it hit the rule. If it is the subchain of
another chain, the packet will continue to travel through the superior chains
as if nothing had happened. If the chain is the main chain, for example the
INPUT chain, the packet will have the default policy
taken on it. The default policy is normally set to ACCEPT,
DROP or similar.
For example, let's say a packet enters the INPUT chain and then hits a rule
that it matches and that tells it to --jump EXAMPLE_CHAIN.
The packet will then start traversing the EXAMPLE_CHAIN,
and all of a sudden it matches a specific rule which has the --jump
RETURN target set. It will then jump back to the
INPUT chain. Another example would be if the packet
hit a --jump RETURN rule in the
INPUT chain. It would then be dropped to the default
policy as previously described, and no more actions would be taken in this
chain.
 | Works under Linux kernel 2.3, 2.4, 2.5 and 2.6.
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