Op donderdag 5 juni 2003 13:53, schreef Matthew Pocock: > Hi, > > I've set up my bridge+firewall, and everything is hunkeydory. I am doing > statefull filtering. I let all traffic out, and all related/established > traffic in. Then, I only allow new icmp & tcp:ssh connections in. > > To get windows 95 & 98 PCs on the inside to boot & join the network, I > had to open up udp ports bootps & bootpc for new connections > orriginating from the outside. I don't know the finer details about how > these protocols work, but presumably they are connecting to the booting > PC in response to some DHCP request it has made. Is there some module I > should have loaded that would flag these connections as RELATED to some > outgoing connection? Have I done something silly? Is this even possible? > > Thanks, > > Matthew I'ts possible ,but a connection orriginating from the outside to boot internal your PC , no way. ?? Request for a DHCP should be orriginating from the inside. (your win95 +98). and reply should come from the outside. No, you don't have to load a module. but your very warm, there should be a rule to track these connections. example: DHCP_SERVER"211.124.45.2" ${IPTABLES} -A OUTPUT -p udp -s 0/0 -d ${DHCP_SERVER} --sport 68 --dport 67 \ -m state --state NEW -j ACCEPT ${IPTABLES} -A INPUT -p udp -s 0/0 -s ${DHCP_SERVER} --sport 67 --dport 68 \ -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT hmm.. silly NO , silly are the people who don't ask , but just do. Pascal