IP access restriction
Mike Burger
mburger at bubbanfriends.org
Wed Oct 13 04:14:32 UTC 2004
My apologies.
Yes...a box running iptables could be used as a border/front end firewall.
I'm using such a setup, now, on my DSL connection, to restrict access to
the various machines on my home network.
On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Rick Lim wrote:
> The boxes vary from unix servers to voip gateways etc, so IPTABLES is not an
> option on each machine, what is required is a machine to funnel all acess
> into and out of the subnet these machines are on.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]
> On Behalf Of Mike Burger
> Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2004 4:58 PM
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: Re: IP access restriction
>
> 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.
>
--
Mike Burger
http://www.bubbanfriends.org
Visit the Dog Pound II BBS
telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org
To be notified of updates to the web site, visit
http://www.bubbanfriends.org/mailman/listinfo/site-update, or send a
message to:
site-update-request at bubbanfriends.org
with a message of:
subscribe
More information about the fedora-list
mailing list