I have 4 network interfaces, eth0, eth1 (external) and eth2, eht3 (internal). I have started to add rules for the iptables. These are the interfaces: # External 1 ifconfig eth0 5.5.5.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 # External 2 ifconfig eth1 6.6.6.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 # Internal 1 ifconfig eth2 10.10.1.9 netmask 255.255.255.0 # Internal 2 ifconfig eth3 10.10.1.8 netmask 255.255.255.0 My intent is to only allow connection with the firewall for ssh by the eth2 interface, so the following are my rules: #1 SSH firewall to eth2 iptables -A INPUT -i eth2 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 22 -s 10.10.1.0/24 -d 10.10.1.0/24 -j ACCEPT iptables -A OUTPUT -o eth2 -p tcp -s 10.10.1.0/24 -d 10.10.1.0/24 -j ACCEPT #21 marcando pacotes da eth2 para a rota da tabela 3 iptables -t mangle -A PREROUTING -i eth2 -s 10.10.1.0/24 -j MARK --set-mark 3 #22 marcando pacotes da eth2 para a rota da tabela 4 iptables -t mangle -A PREROUTING -i eth3 -s 10.10.1.0/24 -j MARK --set-mark 4 #3 NAT iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth1 -s 10.10.1.0/24 -j SNAT --to-source 5.5.5.1 iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -s 10.10.1.0/24 -j SNAT --to-source 5.5.5.2 #4 forward da eth2 (interna) para eth0 /sbin/iptables -A FORWARD -i eth0 -o eth2 -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT /sbin/iptables -A FORWARD -i eth2 -o eth0 -j ACCEPT #7 forward da eth2 (interna) para eth1 /sbin/iptables -A FORWARD -i eth1 -o eth2 -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT /sbin/iptables -A FORWARD -i eth2 -o eth1 -j ACCEPT #7 forward da eth3 (interna) para eth0 /sbin/iptables -A FORWARD -i eth0 -o eth3 -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT /sbin/iptables -A FORWARD -i eth3 -o eth0 -j ACCEPT #8 deny para todos os pacotes iptables -A INPUT -j DROP iptables -A OUTPUT -j DROP iptables -A FORWARD -j DROP iptables -Z My problem is the following: I am able to connect from my machine to the firewall using both eth2 and eth3. However, note that the INPUT default is DROP, and the only rule on the INPUT SHOULD be filtering and only allowing connections to the eth2 and not the eth3 interface... Any toughts ? Regards, Victor