[Techtalk] problem with wireless/LAN router

Kai MacTane kmactane at gothpunk.com
Wed Jan 17 19:52:51 UTC 2007


At 09:05 AM 1/17/2007, Carla Schroder wrote:
>iptables has these rules:
>
>#Enable unrestricted outgoing traffic, incoming
>#is restricted to locally-initiated sessions only
>$ipt -A INPUT -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
>$ipt -A FORWARD -i $WAN_IFACE -o $LAN_IFACE -m state --state
>ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
>$ipt -A FORWARD -i $LAN_IFACE -o $WAN_IFACE -m state --state
>NEW,ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT

I see rules that allow LAN > WAN communication, and WAN > LAN if the 
state is right, but nothing for LAN > LAN. Is that the problem?

                                                 --Kai MacTane
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