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From: Andrew Beverley <andy@andybev.com>
To: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>
Cc: netfilter@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Starter iptables scripts
Date: Thu, 05 May 2011 00:19:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1304551168.32212.36.camel@andybev-desktop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8762pqax4j.fsf@newsguy.com>

On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 18:01 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Setup: Running Gentoo Linux
>        Iptables and many related parts compiled into kernel
> 
> Can anyone offer well used and vouched for URLs to iptables scripts
> for a starter firewall setup?
> 

There's plenty of stuff out there if you Google, but if you tell us
exactly what you want to achieve then we will suggest something.

A good starting point for a basic firewall is to block all incoming
unrelated requests, but let everything out. Not particularly
comprehensive, but it may suit your needs:

iptables -A INPUT -i $ext_IF -m state \
	--state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT -i $ext_IF -j DROP

You may also want to do FORWARD if you use this as a gateway:

iptables -A FORWARD -i $ext_IF -m state \
	--state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
iptables -A FORWARD -i $ext_IF -j DROP


Andy





  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-04 23:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-04 23:01 Starter iptables scripts Harry Putnam
2011-05-04 23:19 ` Andrew Beverley [this message]
2011-05-04 23:41   ` Jan Engelhardt
2011-05-05  6:03     ` Andrew Beverley

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