thanks steve
At 09:30 PM 8/27/2003 -0400, Sean Estabrooks wrote:
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 19:17:48 -0500 Steve Buehler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am REAL new to iptables. I installed RedHat 9 with the firewall set on
> "High". The firewall only allows things like http, ftp, smtp and
> domain. How can I open up the firewall so that I can open it up for VNC
> connections to the server. I presume that you use iptables, but I haven't
> been able to get the right setup for it. Right now my iptables look like this:
> ======================
> Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
> target prot opt source destination
> RH-Lokkit-0-50-INPUT all -- anywhere anywhere
>
> Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
> target prot opt source destination
> RH-Lokkit-0-50-INPUT all -- anywhere anywhere
>
> Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
> target prot opt source destination
>
> Chain RH-Lokkit-0-50-INPUT (2 references)
> target prot opt source destination
> ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:http
> flags:SYN,RST,ACK/SYN
> ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:ftp
> flags:SYN,RST,ACK/SYN
> ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:smtp
> flags:SYN,RST,ACK/SYN
> ACCEPT all -- anywhere anywhere
> ACCEPT all -- anywhere anywhere
> ACCEPT udp -- 0.0.0.0 anywhere udp spt:domain
> ACCEPT udp -- mydnsservername.com anywhere udp spt:domain
> REJECT tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp
> flags:SYN,RST,ACK/SYN reject-with icmp-port-unreachable
> REJECT udp -- anywhere anywhere udp reject-with
> icmp-port-unreachable
> =======================
>
> I have two lan cards in the machine. eth0 is for the WAN and eth1 is
> trusted in the firewall for the LAN. So I can use vnce on the LAN, but
> can't connect to it on the external IP on the WAN. I have done some
> searching and found the following lines to add, but they don't seem to open
> it up for me unless there is something that I have to do after entering
> these at the command line to make them work.
>
> iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --sport 5801 -j ACCEPT
> iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --sport 5901 -j ACCEPT
> iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --sport 6001 -j ACCEPT
>
>
Hi Steve,
Try changing the "-A" to "-I" in each of the above commands so that these rules fire before the Lokkit rules.
Also, the --sport looks wrong to me, to my eye it should be --dport so try that change too if the above idea alone doesn't work.
Good Luck, Sean
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