Dear Antony, I agree with you, i must block all traffic and accept one-by-one rules that i want, but the problem is i don't know how to do this ...., btw.. this in my rules iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j SNAT --to-source 202.46.146.161 iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -i eth0 -d 202.46.146.164 --dport 110 -j DNAT --to 172.16.128.50 iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -i eth0 -d 202.46.146.164 --dport 25 -j DNAT --to 172.16.128.50 iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -i eth0 -d 202.46.146.165 --dport 25 -j DNAT --to 172.16.128.125 iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -i eth0 -d 202.46.146.165 --dport 110 -j DNAT --to 172.16.128.125 iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -i eth0 -d 202.46.146.166 --dport 80 -j DNAT --to 172.16.131.6 iptables -A FORWARD -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -i eth0 -d 202.46.146.167 --dport 21 -j DNAT --to 172.16.128.79bie iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -i eth0 -d 202.46.146.168 --dport 21 -j DNAT --to 172.16.131.29 iptables -A FORWARD -p udp -s 0/0 --dport 137 -j DROP I know this rules is very weak.... can you help me to make my firewall strongger...... Thank's a lot David Kandou Newbie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Antony Stone" <Antony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <netfilter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 1:17 PM Subject: Re: block port 137 > On Tuesday 03 August 2004 7:04 am, Dhananjoy Chowdhury wrote: > > > try dropping packets both with dport 137 and also with sport 137. > > I disagree. > > Try ACCEPTing the packets you *want* to go through the firewall, and DROP > everything else. > > Don't create individual rules to DROP the traffic you think you don't want > (you will always forget something, or there will be a new problem next week > which requires a new rule, etc). > > Instead create individual rules to ACCEPT the traffic you need, and DROP > anything which doesn't fit that description. > > Regards, > > Antony. > > > On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 10:37, david wrote: > > > Dear all, > > > How to block outgoing traffic over network that using port 137 udp, > > > because my isp tell me that my network broadcast virus using port 137 > > > udp, i want to make all traffic (port 137) do go outside my network, > > > so i plan to blocking that traffic from my gateway. > > > > > > I already try to do this rules, but not working : > > > #iptables -A FORWARD -p udp -s 0/0 --dport 137 -j DROP > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > David Kandou > > -- > If builders made buildings the way programmers write programs, then the first > woodpecker to come along would destroy civilisation. > > Please reply to the list; > please don't CC me. > > >