[Comm-en] setting up iptables

[Michael Shigorin]

On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 06:52:26AM -0600, djbouley wrote:
> >    OTOH /usr/lib/iptables/libipt_tcprules.so is not present on my
> I cannot find it on my system either.

Argh, it's my fault -- underreconstructed local configuration.

> Here's the contents of /etc/sysconfig/iptables:

Should be like this: (add one line)

> *filter
:tcprules - [0:0]
> -A INPUT -j tcprules
> -A FORWARD -j tcprules
> -A tcprules -i eth1 -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
> -A tcprules -i ! eth1 -m state --state NEW -j ACCEPT
> -A tcprules -i eth1 -m state --state INVALID,NEW -j DROP
> -A tcprules -i eth1 -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-host-unreachable
> COMMIT
> *nat
> -A POSTROUTING -s 192.168.0.0/24 -o eth1 -j MASQUERADE
> COMMIT

The story: we've asked iptables to use a specific chain (which
gets reused), but haven't created ("declared") it and no specific
module was found to be used for it.

Somewhat more elaborate config is attached, you can have some
more interesting examples in its comments.

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