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From: Jason Opperisano <opie@817west.com>
Subject: Re: Prevent traceroutes
Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 11:20:21 -0400
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On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 02:44:14AM -0500, Taylor, Grant wrote:
> I just figured it out and have tested it.  I *think* the reason that my 
> first script did not work for the first router is b/c the raw routing code 
> will send the ICMP TTL time exceeded message before any of the chains in 
> the filter table have a chance to process the packet.  Hens my using the 
> nat:PREROUTING chain.  I have also made the filtering process easier too as 
> you do not have to filter in the filter:INPUT and filter:FORWARD chains, 
> just the nat:PREROUTING now.
> 
> iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i $LAN -p udp -m recent --name 
> Drop_Traceroute --update --seconds 200 --rdest -j DROP
> iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i $LAN -p udp -m recent --name 
> Drop_Traceroute --set --rdest -m ttl --ttl-eq 1 -j DROP
> iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i $LAN -p icmp -m recent --name 
> Drop_Traceroute --update --seconds 200 --rdest -j DROP
> iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i $LAN -p icmp -m recent --name 
> Drop_Traceroute --set --rdest -m ttl --ttl-eq 1 -j DROP
> 
> This will prevent any traceroutes via the methods mentioned before from any 
> computer coming in on interface $LAN.

please do this in -t mangle PREROUTING and not -t nat.  filtering in
-t nat is poor form, and i know lots of people are probably emulating
your scripts.

-j

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