RE: Forwarding Problems

["Rob Sterenborg" <rob@sterenborg.info>]

> accepted. The problem
> is, if I use
> 
> iptables -A FORWARD -j DROP
> or
> iptables -P FORWARD DROP
> 
> they will drop all packets including the ones I already ACCEPTed.

I don't see any rule that makes the filter stateful.
When it's stateful, you don't have to worry about all the returning
packets.
I think that will make it work.

> 
> example (want to allow all incoming and outgoing www traffic):
> iptables -A FORWARD -p tcp -d 192.168.1.0/24 --dport 80 -j ACCEPT
> iptables -A FORWARD -p tcp -d 192.168.1.0/24 --sport 80 -j ACCEPT

Packets sent *to* a webserver will most likely not come *from* port
80/tcp.

> iptables -A FORWARD -p tcp -s 192.168.1.0/24 --dport 80 -j ACCEPT
> iptables -A FORWARD -p tcp -s 192.168.1.0/24 --sport 80 -j ACCEPT
> iptables -A FORWARD -j DROP

So, making it stateful, it would look like this :

iptables -P FORWARD DROP
iptables -A FORWARD -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
iptables -A FORWARD -d 192.168.1.0/24 -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT


Gr,
Rob