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Re: Question about ipchains



On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 08:01:34PM +0200, Alson van der Meulen wrote:

> It accepts all other traffic to non-privileged ports. i prefer to
> allow traffic without the syn flag (not initiating a new connection)
> only, not all misc traffic, it's more secure, the way to do it is
> like:
> ipchains -A input -s 0/0 -d 0/0 1024:65535 -p tcp ! -y -j ACCEPT
> ipchains -A input -s 0/0 -d 0/0 1024:65535 -p udp ! -y -j ACCEPT
> 

unfortuantly this breaks irc, ftp and many other things.  

> Read the ipchains howto for more info
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Ethan Benson
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