+1
On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 9:41 AM, James B. Byrne <byrnejb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>
> On Mon, June 16, 2014 23:34, Chuck Campbell wrote:
>
> > I appreciate you restating this. I'll try to go make sense of iptables,
> given
> > the insight,
> >
>
> Keep in mind that there are three default chains, INPUT, OUTPUT and FORWARD
> that are used to initiate the packet path through IPTABLES and that they
> are
> mutually exclusive. INPUT deals ONLY with packets that arrive from off of
> AND
> are destined for the host running IPTABLES. OUTPUT deals only with packets
> that originate from the host running IPTABLES regardless of where they are
> destined. And FORWARD deals only with packets that arrive from and are
> destined off of the host running IPTABLES. A packet starts in only one of
> these based solely on its origin/destination pairing and it does not cross
> over automatically into either of the others. For example, if a forwarded
> packet is detected then the INPUT and OUTPUT chains are not used at all.
>
> I have seen chain misconfiguration where IPTABLES rules evidently assume
> that
> a packet is to pass from the INPUT chain or the OUTPUT chain to the FORWARD
> chain automatically. In some cases it seems that the rules writer has
> implicitly assumed that INPUT -> FORWARD -> OUTPUT is the default routing
> of
> all packet paths. This is not the case and it does not happen unless the
> other chain is specifically called from within the originating chain.
>
> My practice is to place general rules that I wish to apply to all packets,
> regardless of source or destination, into a chain called GENERAL and simply
> call that chain as the last instruction in each of the default chains.
> Actually I put very little else in the default chains and route from the
> GENERAL chain to other chains dedicated to specific rule sets, like for
> port
> knocking (FWKNOP_ALLOW); or for assured access (ALWAYS_ALLOW); or for
> blacklists: ALWAYS_DENY and FAIL2BAN_DENY for example.
>
>
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