[Wylug-help] simple iptables rule

John Hodrien johnh at comp.leeds.ac.uk
Tue Feb 15 17:44:00 GMT 2005


On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, John Hodrien wrote:

> On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Gary Stainburn wrote:
>
>> Hi folks.
>>
>> I've got a RH7.3+errata box with eth1 visible to the internet. eth0 is
>> internal.
>>
>> What do I need to put where so that iptables limits access to eth1 to 1
>> specifc IP address while not affecting eth0 at all.
>
> iptables -i eth1 -s !specific.ip.add.ress -j DROP
> iptables -o eth1 -d !specific.ip.add.ress -j DROP

You'd need a space between the ! and the s if you used that one.

jh

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