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From: Tom H <tomh0665@gmail.com>
To: Gentoo User <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] workstation iptables
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2015 14:20:25 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOdo=SwfSfsvghiB0f3RjuTu4hOUTXTNeqPyeGX5bS==UbDv9Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20151006T210434-749@post.gmane.org>

On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 3:14 PM, James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> # A basic stateful firewall for a workstation or laptop that isn't running any
> # network services like a web server, SMTP server, ftp server, etc.
>
> if [ "$1" = "start" ]
> then
>         echo "Starting firewall..."
>         iptables -P INPUT DROP
>         iptables -A INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
> elif [ "$1" = "stop" ]
> then
>         echo "Stopping firewall..."
>         iptables -F INPUT
>         iptables -P INPUT ACCEPT
> fi

Since you're starting from scratch, you might want to replace "-m
state --state" by "-m conntrack --ctstate" because the former's
deprecated and is now an alias to the latter.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-10-07 18:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-06 19:14 [gentoo-user] workstation iptables James
2015-10-07  5:46 ` Mick
2015-10-07 13:23   ` [gentoo-user] " James
2015-10-07 20:41     ` Mick
2015-10-07 18:20 ` Tom H [this message]
2015-10-07 18:22 ` [gentoo-user] " Alon Bar-Lev

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