[Gllug] Security & closing ports on certain interfaces.

[Jackson, Harry]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Zverina, David [mailto:David.Zverina at uk.wmmercer.com]
> 
> ipchains -A input -p tcp --destination-port 6000 -i ppp0 -j DENY
> 
> The above line will discard tcp packets that are:
> 1. Incoming and addressed to port 6000 (X) and
> 2. come in along the ppp0 interface.
> 
> Repeat for any other ports that you want to filter.
> 
> 
> Then stick these commands into /etc/rc.d/rc.local so that you are
> automatically protected whenever you reboot.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Dave.

I have looked at putting my iptables script into rc.local but I believe that
you can edit the init.d/iptables file directly so that you can get the
benefit of the start and stop routines as well. I have also looked at
iptables-save but not figured it out yet.

Harry


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