From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Sylvan Andrew" Subject: Fw: --state NEW -j DROP (would be great) Resolved Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 10:28:28 +1130 Message-ID: <007a01c5dda5$71544e60$0510a8c0@cornerpc> Reply-To: Sylvan Andrew Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: netfilter-bounces@lists.netfilter.org Errors-To: netfilter-bounces@lists.netfilter.org Content-Type: text/plain; format="flowed"; charset="us-ascii"; reply-type="original" To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org Thanks for all the info. Problem fixed. Many thanks !!! When traffic is being forwarded through your router it traverses pre-routing,forward,postrouting chains. When traffic is being used by a local process on the router it traverses, pre-routing,input,output,postrouting chains. I think its best to place any blacklist rules in the pre-routing chain instead of input. Cheers -- Craig Steadman RHCE,MCSA,CCNA Hello, Could somebody please explain the 'iptables -A INPUT -eth0 -m state --state NEW -j DROP' a bit more for me ? I understand that it won't allow any outside initiated inbound connections into a network. However occasionally if I'm doing a tcpdump we see things like: 21:04:48.935367 IP 82.29.180.221.15378 > 213.17.40.204.4154: R 0:0(0) ack 1 win 0 21:04:48.935447 IP 82.29.180.221.15378 > 213.17.40.204.4154: R 0:0(0) ack 1 win 0 21:04:48.935455 IP 82.29.180.221.15378 > 213.17.40.204.4154: R 0:0(0) ack 1 win 0 21:04:48.935537 IP 82.29.180.221.15378 > 213.17.40.204.4154: R 0:0(0) ack 1 win 0 21:04:48.935545 IP 82.29.180.221.15378 > 213.17.40.204.4154: R 0:0(0) ack 1 win 0 21:04:48.935629 IP 82.29.180.221.15378 > 213.17.40.204.4154: R 0:0(0) ack 1 win 0 21:04:48.935637 IP 82.29.180.221.15378 > 213.17.40.204.4154: R 0:0(0) ack 1 win 0 21:04:48.935812 IP 82.29.180.221.15378 > 213.17.40.204.4154: R 0:0(0) ack 1 win 0 21:04:48.935821 IP 82.29.180.221.15378 > 213.17.40.204.4154: R 0:0(0) ack 1 win 0 21:04:48.936045 IP 82.29.180.221.15378 > 213.17.40.204.4154: R 0:0(0) ack 1 win 0 21:04:48.936053 IP 82.29.180.221.15378 > 213.17.40.204.4154: R 0:0(0) ack 1 win 0 21:04:48.936153 IP 82.29.180.221.15378 > 213.17.40.204.4154: R 0:0(0) ack 1 win 0 What is that and shouldn't it be dropped ? Or is the : R 0:0(0) ack 1 win 0 part of it a already establish connection ? Although that's one of our IP's it's not active on our network. Any ideas / advice would be greatly appreciated ! Regards Sylvan