iptables question
Mike Lovell
mike at dev-zero.net
Tue Nov 4 11:44:52 MST 2008
Michael Torrie wrote:
> Stuart Jansen wrote:
>
>> As for your firewall problem, it's hard to debug a firewall without
>> looking at _all_ rules. If you're comfortable giving us the entire rule
>> set, run "iptables-save" and send us the output.
>>
>
> I'm a bit unsure of why an administrator would be uncomfortable sharing
> iptables rules. Perhaps the list of allowed ports is felt to be
> sensitive. But those can be determined very easily by a would-be
> hacker. Security by obscurity perhaps?
>
I don't really have a problem sharing rules. OpenWRT doesn't have
iptables-save in the default install and I don't feel like going hunting
for it. If you all really want, I'll post the output of 'iptables -L'
and my hack of the /etc/firewall.user file.
Mike
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