Nick, its obvious. he wants to block ping and ssh. that means he doesnt want those services accessed. how hard is that. just cause you know how means that you are allowed. -----Original Message----- From: netfilter-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:netfilter-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Nick Drage Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 1:11 AM To: netfilter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: block ssh and ping On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 04:52:53PM +0500, varun_saa@xxxxxxxx wrote: > Hello, > My server is Mandrake 10.1 > eth0 is WAN with static IP connected to 512k DSL > eth1 is LAN. > > 1. I would like to block ping to my external static IP > > 2. I would like to block ssh to my external static IP > > Howto to do that ? Out of interest - why do you specifically want to block those protocols? It's a good idea to block everything inbound and only permit what's required so I'm wondering why you want to block these two. -- Where are we going and what's with the hand basket?
