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Iptables firewall on Debian

July 29th, 2011 1 Comment






















Iptables provide filtering, NAT and other packet mangling.

Viewing current configuration

 iptables -L

Output will be like

 Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
 target     prot opt source               destination
 
 Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
 target     prot opt source               destination
 
 Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
 target     prot opt source               destination

Storing iptables rules in a file

nano -w /etc/iptables.test.rules
*filter
 
 # Allows all loopback (lo0) traffic and drop all traffic to 127/8 that doesn't use lo0
 -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT
 -A INPUT -i ! lo -d 127.0.0.0/8 -j REJECT
 
 # Accepts all established inbound connections
 -A INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
 
 # Allows all outbound traffic
 # You could modify this to only allow certain traffic
 -A OUTPUT -j ACCEPT
 
 # Allows HTTP and HTTPS connections from anywhere (the normal ports for websites)
 -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT
 -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 443 -j ACCEPT
 
 # Allows SSH connections for script kiddies
 # THE -dport NUMBER IS THE SAME ONE YOU SET UP IN THE SSHD_CONFIG FILE
 -A INPUT -p tcp -m state --state NEW --dport 30000 -j ACCEPT
 
 # Now you should read up on iptables rules and consider whether ssh access
 # for everyone is really desired. Most likely you will only allow access from certain IPs.
 
 # Allow ping
 -A INPUT -p icmp -m icmp --icmp-type 8 -j ACCEPT
 
 # log iptables denied calls (access via 'dmesg' command)
 -A INPUT -m limit --limit 5/min -j LOG --log-prefix "iptables denied: " --log-level 7
 
 # Reject all other inbound - default deny unless explicitly allowed policy:
 -A INPUT -j REJECT
 -A FORWARD -j REJECT
 
 COMMIT

Activate these new rules:

iptables-restore < /etc/iptables.test.rules

See the difference

iptables -L

If you are happy then save new rules to master iptables file

iptables-save > /etc/iptables.up.rules

To make sure the iptables rules are started on a reboot we'll create a new file

 nano -w /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/iptables
#!/bin/bash
 /sbin/iptables-restore < /etc/iptables.up.rules

Set permission

chmod +x /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/iptables

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