Your following commands will not work as state NEW is not there in the INPUT chain, but if you add NEW, every one now can access your router. >># Allow UDP, DNS and Passive FTP >>$IPT -A INPUT -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT >>$IPT -A OUTPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT use the following command so that your client can access the router through ssh but add before tha above mentioned command. iptables -A INPUT -s client_ip -dport 22 --state NEW, ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT Regards Karim Asif ----- Original Message ----- From: duren duren <jusdurian_jr@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Sunday, February 17, 2008 9:20 am Subject: Ask: Default Policy DROP for INPUT, OUTPUT and FORWARD To: netfilter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > i want build firewal for router in one machine as a > squid proxy server, caching dns server and bandwith > limiter with HTB. > > i use default policy DROP for forward, input, and > output > > -------- code ---------------- > # Clean old firewall > $IPT -F > $IPT -X > $IPT -t nat -F > $IPT -t nat -X > $IPT -t mangle -F > $IPT -t mangle -X > > $MPROBE ip_conntrack > $MPROBE ip_conntrack_ftp > $MPROBE ip_nat_ftp > $MPROBE ip_nat_irc > > # Setting default filter policy > $IPT -P INPUT DROP > $IPT -P OUTPUT DROP > $IPT -P FORWARD DROP > > # Unlimited access to loop back > $IPT -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT > $IPT -A OUTPUT -o lo -j ACCEPT > > # Allow UDP, DNS and Passive FTP > $IPT -A INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j > ACCEPT > $IPT -A OUTPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j > ACCEPT > ------------ end of code > -------------------------------------- > > and my problem is, what filter i must write so my > client can connect into my router. > first i only define PREROUTING, FORWARD and > POSTROUTING, but my client can't ping into router. > > so, if i want default policy DROP for forward, input, > output, prerouting and postrouting, what i want to do? > must i define all of this for allow my client? > > > thanks > > > > ________________________________________________________________________ ____________Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. > http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe > netfilter" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html