iptable in fc5
T. Horsnell
tsh at mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Mon May 15 20:36:40 UTC 2006
>> Hongwei Li 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
>>
>>
>> That rule will only match the initial packet of the stream. You will
>> also need to match states ESTABLISHED and RELATED:
>>
>> -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -s 128.252.85.0/255.255.255.0 -m state --state
>> NEW,ESTABLISHED,RELATED -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?
>>>
>
>I tried:
>
>-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -s 128.252.85.0/255.255.255.0 -m state --state
>NEW,ESTABLISHED,RELATED -p tcp --dport 2049 -j ACCEPT
>-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-host-prohibited
>
>and for other ports 137,139 etc. Still the same: as long as the last line is
>there, nfs does not work. Comment it out, problem is gone.
>
>I will try what Arthur suggested; firestarter. But, I still want to
>understand what "icmp-host-prohibited" means and where to set it.
>Thanks!
I think by default NFS will be using UDP not TCP.
Maybe try changing '-p tcp' to '-p udp'
Cheers,
Terry.
>
>Hongwei
>
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