RE: iptables & tcp wrappers

"Erik Anderson" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.linux
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Personally I would look at Shorewall.  It is a nice wrapper for iptables.

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> Hello.
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> I'm running RH Enterprise edition.
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> I'm relatively new to iptables.  I am getting the common intrusion
> attempts with some  of the common uses of test/guest/root/ and a
> couple others   I've been able to add the IPs to the to iptables.,
> but
> I'd really like a log that tells me the info that I want to know.
> 
> My basic input command is this :
> #iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -s PUT_IP_HERE -d 0/0  --syn -j DROP
> 
> iptables seem a little convoluted.  Example.  To delete  a line -
> supposedly give it a line and it will be deleted/modified.  My
> problem is even with #iptable -L -v there is no line number ?
> 
> My goal is to block all incoming ssh attempts except IP#.
> This is where I got into hosts.allow/deny as mentioned below.
> 
> I've tried to find many different types of commands and it works to
> some degree, but not the way I'd expect it to.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.  I'm not completely sure that I
> understand iptables as well as I want/need to.  I've also toyed
> around with the hosts.allow/hosts.deny and have not been successful.
> 
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> I know that there is a lot of info in here, and I'm tired.  I'll
> leave it at that
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> Thanks in advance for your time and help.
> 
> Meatplow
> greg  ta meatplow.com
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> Thanks again.
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