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Walter G. da Cruz wrote:

>       I am not an expert reading scripts, but I was able to setup IP masquerade with 
> ipchain before.  Now, I try to use IP tables instead.  IP table is working fine 
> with stronger IP firewall, but nobody can access my wwww server from outsite.
> Here is my configuration:
> 
> RH 7.1 kernel 2.4.2-2, IP tables 1.2.4
> 
>                       (DSL) Linux
>            valid,      ------------------               |--Win Box
> Internet --> static   | eth0        eth1 | 192.168.0.1 -|
>            IP address  ------------------               |--Laptop
> 
> Here is what happen:
> 1. All my machines have access outsite with not problem, but...
> 2. Nobody can see my Linux box from outside.
> 3. Therefore, my web site have disappeared misteriously :-(
> 4. I am using stronger IP firewall with some modification I pickup from the
> archive list.  Here are the changes I did:
> 
> $IPTABLES -P INPUT DROP
> $IPTABLES -F INPUT
> $IPTABLES -P OUTPUT DROP
> $IPTABLES -F OUTPUT
> $IPTABLES -P FORWARD DROP
> $IPTABLES -F FORWARD
> $IPTABLES -F -t nat
> 
> $IPTABLES -A FORWARD -i $EXTIF -o $INTIF -p tcp --dport 80 -m state \
> --state NEW,ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
> $IPTABLES -A PREROUTING -t nat -p tcp -d $EXTIP --dport 80 \
> -j DNAT --to 192.168.0.1:80
> 
> $IPTABLES -A POSTROUTING -t nat -d $PORTFWIP -o $INTIF -j SNAT --to $INTIP
> 
> 
> This is what I got:
> 
>     Clearing any existing rules and setting default policy to DROP..
> Enabling PORTFW Redirection on the external LAN..
> Bad argument `,ESTABLISHED,RELATED'
> Try `iptables -h' or 'iptables --help' for more information.
> Bad argument `,ESTABLISHED,RELATED'
> Try `iptables -h' or 'iptables --help' for more information.
> Bad argument `eth1'
> Try `iptables -h' or 'iptables --help' for more information.
>     Creating a DROP chain..
> 
>      - Loading INPUT rulesets
>      - Loading OUTPUT rulesets
>      - Loading FORWARD rulesets
>        - FWD: Allow all connections OUT and only existing/related IN
>        - NAT: Enabling SNAT (MASQUERADE) functionality on eth0
> 
> Stronger rc.firewall-2.4 0.63s done.
> 
>       It seems that the default policy to DROP is blocking my website.  My question 
>is,
> how can I modified the default policy to allow connection to my website from outsite?
> 
>       I've been working on this problem for several days at night and I will 
>appreciate 
> any help I can get.
> 
>                               Thank you,
>                               Walter

the first thing to do is to read sufficient doco to enable you to
prevent those error messages from occurring.

raf

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