Help setting up a firewall on a machine

[Shri Shrikumar <shri@urbyte.com>]

Hi,

I am just configuring a machine and would like to setup a firewall on it
using iptables. I am keen on setting up properly on the first go since I
dont want to be left with a machine that I cant ssh into.

The machine has just one nic eth0 which is connected to the net. There
is not NAT or MASQ to be done

Here is what I have so far.

/sbin/iptables -N block
/sbin/iptables -A block -p ICMP -j ACCEPT
/sbin/iptables -A block -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
/sbin/iptables -A block -j DROP

/sbin/iptables -A INPUT -j block
/sbin/iptables -A FORWARD -j block

What rules do I need to add to the block chain to allow any new
connections from machine to the outside world ? would it just be

/sbin/iptables -A block -m state --state NEW -o eth0 -j ACCEPT

I am also going to be hosting a site, so the following rule will be
added as well,

/sbin/iptables -I block -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT


Do these rules sound about right ?


Thanks and regards,



Shri
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