IP access restriction

[Mike Burger]

On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Rick Lim wrote:

> I have a friend that has a few boxes directly on the internet, which he
> thinks are being access by unwanted "visitors".
> 
> These machine still have to have routable IP address but should have limited
> access from external IP subnets.
> 
>  
> 
> What would be suitable for limiting IP subnet access to these address?
> 
> Would a 'firewall' like machine with IPTABLES be able to accomplish this,
> that is without changing the IP address passed through the 'firewallish'
> machine?

iptables, on the system in question, should be sufficient.
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