Block IP traffic from an specific IP or Network. Block from an IP iptables -A INPUT -s 11.22.33.44 -j DROP If you want to block only on an specific NIC iptables -A INPUT -s 11.22.33.44 -i eth0 -j DROP Or an specific port iptables -A INPUT -s 11.22.33.44 -p tcp -dport 22 -j DROP Using […]

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Many of you probably know about port scanning. It’s a very simple process, where essentially you attempt to to make a connection on several ports of several machines. If the port is closed, a reset is returned. If the port is open, a SYN+ACK is returned. Now, there are some other types of scans, such […]

Contents     What is Bridging?    Installing a Bridge    Configuring a Bridge    What is a Bridging Firewall?    Installing a Bridging Ebtables Firewall    Configuring a Bridging Ebtables Firewall    Installing a Bridging Iptables Firewall    Configuring a Bridging Iptables Firewall    What is an Intrusion Prevention System?    Installing an Intrusion Prevention System    Configuring an Intrusion Prevention System What is Bridging? […]

What Is Stealth Firewalling with Linux?Simply put, a stealth firewall is an Ethernet bridge with filtering capabilities. This means that it’s a firewall that operates at Layer 2 of the OSI model, leveraging netfilter rules and chains (Linux’s firewall system) applied to the bridge. For those not familiar with what a bridge is: an Ethernet […]

Another way of achieving the same thing is to add an iptable redirection rule. We have done it this way, because we didn’t want to add the xinit package to our standard configuration. These instructions were created on a Debian Lenny system. Create a new “if-up” script:sudo vim /etc/network/if-up.d/jira-redirect Make this its content: #!/bin/bashfor i […]

-A FORWARD -s 192.168.0.232 -m string –string “facebook.com” –algo kmp –to 65535 -j ACCEPTA FORWARD -m string –string “youtube.com” –algo kmp –to 65535 -j DROP-A FORWARD -m string –string “facebook.com” –algo kmp –to 65535 -j DROP-A FORWARD -m string –string “meebo.com” –algo kmp –to 65535 -j DROP

Below Rules will block few of the Nmap Scans on ur linux server The default config files of IPtables for RHEL / CentOS / Fedora Linux are located here /etc/sysconfig/iptables – iptables -A INPUT -p tcp –tcp-flags ALL FIN -j DROP iptables -A INPUT -p tcp –tcp-flags ALL NONE -j DROP iptables -A INPUT -p […]

How do I configure a host-based firewall called Netfilter (iptables) under CentOS / RHEL / Fedora / Redhat Enterprise Linux? Netfilter is a host-based firewall for Linux operating systems. It is included as part of the Linux distribution and it is activated by default. This firewall is controlled by the program called iptables. Netfilter filtering […]

Installing and configuring Shorewall in CentOS Netfilter is a packet filtering in Linux 2.4.x and 2.6.x kernels Enables packet filtering (network address and port), NAT and other packages. Redesigned and highly improved from the previous kernel 2.2.x, ipchains and ipfwadm kernel 2.0.x. Netfilter is a set of structures within the kernel that allows modules to […]