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Firewall

Block a Certain Host

iptables -I INPUT -s 180.178.99.69 -j DROP

/etc/rc.d/rc.iptables Example

This script configures netfilter for use in a router/firewall.

Initializing

At first, I set some variables to make the rest of the script more readable and more flexible:

#!/bin/sh

LanPrefix=192.168.0   # This script is using an IP-address scheme like 192.168.0.x

LANif=eth0            # this interface serves the local network
WANif=eth1            # this interface connects to the cable modem

Inserting some Kernel modules

The modprobe commands load additional extensions for netfilter:

modprobe ip_tables
modprobe iptable_filter
#modprobe ip_conntrack
#modprobe ip_conntrack_ftp
modprobe ipt_state
modprobe iptable_nat
modprobe ip_nat_ftp
modprobe ipt_MASQUERADE
#modprobe ipt_LOG
#modprobe ipt_REJECT
modprobe xt_TCPMSS
modprobe ipt_recent

After the kernel modules have been inserted, we need to activate a few things:

echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts    # Enable broadcast echo Protection
echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/accept_source_route   # Disable Source Routed Packets
#not installed yet!  echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_syncookies   # Enable TCP SYN Cookie Protection
echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/accept_redirects      # Disable ICMP Redirect Acceptance
echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/send_redirects        # Don't send Redirect Messages
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/rp_filter             # Drop Spoofed Packets coming in on an
                                                           # interface where responses would result
                                                           # in the reply going out a different IF
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/log_martians          # Log packets with impossible addresses
echo 2 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_dynaddr                     # Be verbose on dynamic ip-addresses
                                                           # not needed with static ip
echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn                        # Disable Explicit Congestion Notification
                                                           # Too many routers are still ignorant

Clearing All Rules

Before declaring the actual firewall rules, it is a good idea to create a known state. I want the firewall to reject everything, except I allowed it explicitly:

# Clear everything
iptables -F   # flush (delete all rules)
iptables -X   # delete user-defined chains
iptables -Z   # reset packet and byte counters in all chains to zero
iptables -t nat -F   # delete and zero above doesn't apply to nat

# Set initial state
iptables -P INPUT   DROP
iptables -P FORWARD DROP   # default = drop every packet
iptables -P OUTPUT  DROP

Allowing Stuff

After the firewall is set to "paranoid", we need to allow things, we want to use. This is mostly about servers (services) on the router box itself, as also about port forwards to services on computers behind the firewall. This example shows rules for VNC (a remote desktop server), the Torrent client "Transmission" (which wants to be "available" to the net for getting better download rates) and the game "Armagetron", which might start a service ("host a game"):

# Port forwards to LAN
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 5900 -j DNAT --to $LanPrefix.1:5900     # VNC
iptables -A FORWARD -p tcp --dport 5900 -j ACCEPT

iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 5800 -j DNAT --to $LanPrefix.1:5800     # VNC-http
iptables -A FORWARD -p tcp --dport 5800 -j ACCEPT

iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 51413 -j DNAT --to $LanPrefix.1:51413   # Transmission Torrent
iptables -A FORWARD -p tcp --dport 51413 -j ACCEPT

iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p udp --dport 4534 -j DNAT --to $LanPrefix.1:4534      # Armagetron
iptables -A FORWARD -p udp --dport 4534 -j ACCEPT

Opening Local Area

Connections to localhost are internal connections (router accesses "itself"), so we can safely allow all of them. Computers in our LAN are also allowed to connect to any service, that might be running on the router/firewall box:

iptables -A INPUT  -i lo -j ACCEPT       # Allow any from/to local host
iptables -A OUTPUT -o lo -j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT  -i $LANif -j ACCEPT   # Allow any from/to LAN
iptables -A OUTPUT -o $LANif -j ACCEPT

Allow the Router to Access the Internet

Connections from the router to services on the internet are allowed without restrictions:

iptables -A OUTPUT -o $WANif -j ACCEPT                                       # Allow all outgoing to WAN
iptables -A INPUT -i $WANif -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT   # Allow incoming from WAN, if already established

Allow Certain Services to Be Accessed From The Internet

SSHport=22
# against SSH Brute-Force
iptables -A INPUT -i $WANif -p tcp --dport $SSHport -m state --state NEW -m recent --set --name SSH
## Eintrag im syslog  iptables -A INPUT -i ppp+ -p tcp --dport 22 -m recent --update --seconds 60 --hitcount 4 --name SSH -j LOG --log-prefix "SSH_brute_force "
iptables -A INPUT -i $WANif -p tcp --dport $SSHport -m recent --update --seconds 60 --hitcount 4 --name SSH -j DROP
iptables -A INPUT -i $WANif -p tcp --dport $SSHport -j ACCEPT                      # Open SSH to WAN


iptables -A INPUT -i $WANif -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT                            # Open HTTP to WAN

iptables -A INPUT -i $WANif -p icmp -j ACCEPT                                      # Let us be pinged

iptables -A FORWARD -i ! $WANif -m state --state NEW -j ACCEPT                     # Forward initializations not from WAN
iptables -A FORWARD -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT                 # Forward all already established connections

PPPoE Adjustment

If you are using a DSL Modem with PPPoE (That is "PPP over Ethernet" - the modem is connected to the router with a RJ45 Network-Cable), we need to shrink the Ethernet packet size by 8 bytes (which are needed for the additional layer), because certain servers out there are too silly to enable certain ICMP methods (sic?) for automatic adjustments. Yes, paranoia can be exaggerated.

#iptables -I FORWARD -p tcp --tcp-flags SYN,RST SYN -j TCPMSS --clamp-mss-to-pmtu   # Adjust MTU for PPPoE

Starting IP Forwarding

Finally, we start the forwarding:

iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o $WANif -j MASQUERADE   # guess what


# Log everything for debugging (last of all rules, but before policy rules)
#iptables -A INPUT   -j LOG --log-prefix "FIREWALL:INPUT  "
#iptables -A FORWARD -j LOG --log-prefix "FIREWALL:FORWARD"
#iptables -A OUTPUT  -j LOG --log-prefix "FIREWALL:OUTPUT "

echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward   # Finally, enable IP Forwarding

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