Thanks for your response Max. I'm afraid it doesn't support rules using '--state ESTABLISHED,RELATED' either. Apart from that it's a great router and does pretty much everything else. Any other ideas/theory's ? Thanks for your time. Sylvan Anno domini 2008 Sylvan scripsit: Hi! > I am sure this might be an easy answer for someone. Could you please > enlighten me ? Let's see. :) > I am using the rule below to drop any inbound connections into my .0.3 > Class which by default allows any Outbound connections. Plus if the > connection is already established than those outside connections are ok > as well. > iptables -A INPUT -d 192.168.3.0/24 -m state --state NEW -j DROP > However I am now using a router that doesn't support the -m state > --state NEW rule.(crappy GUI thing) :-( Could someone please tell me another way using > iptables to drop any new inbound connections but allow everything else > outbound and the established connection replys to get back into the .0.3 > Class ? What is the most secure/easiest way ? So you have to input all your rules via a GUI which does not acceppt '--state NEW' right? Asuming yes and the you catched all '--state ESTABLISHED,RELATED' packet which are/could be answer packets to outbound connections, how about just leaving '--state NEW' out and DROP'ing all packets remaining? Obviously after all rules which should accept things. Nearby: DROP'ing unwanted packets IMO is rather bad behavior as it makes debugging (possible) network problems a lot harder. If you just REJECT packets you don't want (with a appropriate limit) everybody knows he is not welcome. So IMO it would be nicer to use '-j REJECT --reject-with icmp-admin-prohibited'. HTH Ciao Max -- 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
