iptable in fc5

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 5/15/06, Hongwei Li <hongwei at wustl.edu> wrote:
> > On 5/15/06, Hongwei Li <hongwei at wustl.edu> wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>  Sorry that I hit the Send before I finish it.
> >>
> >>  I have a question about iptables in fc5. I have iptables 1.3.5-1.2
> >> installed.
> >>  By default, the iptables has a line
> >>  -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p icmp --icmp-type any -j ACCEPT
> >>  ... and
> >>  -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-host-prohibited
> >>
> >>  I try to add the port 2049 for our lan nfs by adding aline before the above
> >>  reject line:
> >>
> >> -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -s 128.252.85.0/255.255.255.0 -m state --state NEW -m
> >> tcp -p tcp --dport 2049 -j ACCEPT
> >> -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-host-prohibited
> >>
> >> and restart iptables.  But my other linux boxes cannot mount the exported
> >> folder.  If I stop the iptable, then they can mount it.  I tried to open
> >> several other ports: 137, 139, etc.  But as long as the last line is there,
> >> it
> >> always failed.  If I comment out the last line, then nfs works.
> >>
> >> What is "icmp-host-prohibited"?  How to set it to allow some requests?  It
> >> seems that it is different from in fc4. Is there any link for iptables in
> >> fc5
> >> where I can learn more?
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >>
> >> Hongwei
> >>
> > Have you tried the GUI configuration tool?
> >
>
> Yes, the same problem.  The other main problem of the gui tool is that it does
> not provide some required options, e.g. I want to open a port (say 2049, 137,
> 139) ONLY to my lan, but the gui tool does have place to enter "source",
> "destination", etc. It only provides port number and tcp/udp selection.  How
> to do it with source/destination?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Hongwei
>

Then it sounds like you need a more powerful firewall configuring
program. Try firestarter

`yum install firestarter` should get you what you want. I would first
disable the Fedora based firewall before using Firestarter.

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