tcpdump output with iptables REJECT policy enabled

Question

Quick question.

I have a firewall with these simple rules:

iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -s 127.0.0.1/32 --dport 6000 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -s 192.168.16.20/32 --dport 6000 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 6000 -j REJECT

Now, suppose I am using TCPDUMP like this:

tcpdump port 6000

And I have host 192.168.16.21 trying to connect to port 6000.

My question is: will/should tcpdump output some packages coming from 192.168.16.21?

Answer 1

tcpdump uses libpcap and libpcap processes packets before they get processed by the firewall, so the answer is "yes".