Re: Firewalll script

[Anders Fugmann <afu@fugmann.dhs.org>]

system@eluminoustechnologies.com wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Following is the policy that my firewall generation script gives, but my 
> system hangs when i execute this, I am using ssh to execute this script. 
> My aim is very simple to close all unused ports. My entire scripts goes 
> like this. Can you please help me in correcting the script.

Your ssh connection hangs because you close off communication to port 
22. The lines:
 > echo "Allow SSH(22/tcp)"
 > $IPTABLES -A INPUT -p tcp --sport 22 -j ACCEPT
 > $IPTABLES -A OUTPUT -p tcp --dport 22 -j ACCEPT
Are wrong, as you want to match the destination port on input and sport 
on output.

In general, it is not considered offensive to have and
iptables -A INPUT -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
iptables -A OUTPUT -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
which will also make the rules alot simpler. For starters, I would even 
recomment that you allow all outgoing packets.

The lines:
 > echo "Disabling IP Spoofing attacks"
 > echo 2 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/rp_filter
Are somewhat incorrect. It should be '1' and not '2'. I have seen many 
scripts and tutorials with this misconseption of what to set where, but 
in the kernel source says 0|1.

 > echo "Logging martians (packets with impossible addresses)"
 > echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/log_martians
This is incorrect. The setting determines if packets violating RFC1122 
should be logged or not. Setting this to '1', disables logging.

Hope it helps.

Regards
Anders Fugmann

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