Iptables and dhcp

Hi folks,

I'm running RH 7 on an HP Netserver. This machine should act as a firewall
(with iptables), and also as a DHCP-server for my internal network.
When I activate the firewall, DHCP is of course no longer available, so I
tried to implement a rule to allow dhcp. I saw that when one of the clients
boots, there's a UDP packet with source-IP 0.0.0.0 and destination
255.255.255.255, destination port 67 which gets dropped. So, I added the
following rule:

$IPTABLES -A FORWARD -p udp -s 0.0.0.0/0 -d 255.255.255.255/32 --dport 67 -j
ACCEPT_LOG

to my iptables.conf. Unfortunately, it didn't work, the packets are still
dropped (according to /var/log/messages). Also, changing the destination IP
to ANY didnt't help.

I know it's a bit insecure to run a DHCP-Server on a firewall, but it's an
internal fw protecting my DMZ - and I don't want to setup another machine for
DHCP...

Any ideas?


Thanks in advance,

Harald
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Dipl. Ing. Harald Husemann
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