On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 01:34:34PM -0800, smoothmilk wrote: > anything? I dont understand how it just flat out doesn't work. I have no > idea how iptables works, and because there's no documentation out there > for beginners who just want a script that's for eth0 with a simple www, > ssh and ftp server(s), Im stuck using rh's tools, which don't do > anything. there's no security here. Shameless plug: http://strange.nsk.pt/mine/ipconf Or a simple script: #! /bin/sh /sbin/modprobe ip_conntrack_ftp &> /dev/null /sbin/iptables -F /sbin/iptables -X /sbin/iptables -P FORWARD DROP /sbin/iptables -P INPUT DROP /sbin/iptables -P OUTPUT ACCEPT /sbin/iptables -A INPUT -p all -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT /sbin/iptables -A INPUT -p IMCP -j ACCEPT /sbin/iptables -A INPUT -p TCP --syn --dport http -j ACCEPT /sbin/iptables -A INPUT -p TCP --syn --dport ssh -j ACCEPT /sbin/iptables -A INPUT -p TCP --syn --dport ftp -j ACCEPT /sbin/iptables -A INPUT -p TCP --syn --dport ftp-data -j ACCEPT Regards, Luciano Rocha