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I am having a problem with my iptables firewall and cannot figure out what is wrong for the life of me. It is currently set up for NAT, and all the PC's can access the internet, however if they attempt to log into any secure website, their page times out. The same goes for ftp. You can log in and authenticate to an ftp server, however if you attempt to send a file, it will timeout trying to transfer. my scripts is...:

#!/bin/bash

# eth0 is connected to the internet.
# eth1 is connected to a private subnet.

PRIVATE=172.24.44.0/24

# Loopback address
LOOP=127.0.0.1

# Delete old iptables rules
# and temporarily block all traffic.
iptables -P OUTPUT DROP
iptables -P INPUT DROP
iptables -P FORWARD DROP
iptables -F

# Set default policies
iptables -P OUTPUT ACCEPT
iptables -P INPUT DROP
iptables -P FORWARD DROP

# Prevent external packets from using loopback addr
iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -s $LOOP -j DROP
iptables -A FORWARD -i eth0 -s $LOOP -j DROP
iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -d $LOOP -j DROP
iptables -A FORWARD -i eth0 -d $LOOP -j DROP

# Anything coming from the Internet should have a real Internet address
iptables -A FORWARD -i eth0 -s 192.168.0.0/16 -j DROP
iptables -A FORWARD -i eth0 -s 172.16.0.0/12 -j DROP
iptables -A FORWARD -i eth0 -s 10.0.0.0/8 -j DROP
iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -s 192.168.0.0/16 -j DROP
iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -s 172.16.0.0/12 -j DROP
iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -s 10.0.0.0/8 -j DROP

# Block outgoing NetBios (if you have windows machines running
# on the private subnet). This will not affect any NetBios
# traffic that flows over the VPN tunnel, but it will stop
# local windows machines from broadcasting themselves to
# the internet.
iptables -A FORWARD -p tcp --sport 137:139 -o eth0 -j DROP
iptables -A FORWARD -p udp --sport 137:139 -o eth0 -j DROP
iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp --sport 137:139 -o eth0 -j DROP
iptables -A OUTPUT -p udp --sport 137:139 -o eth0 -j DROP

# Check source address validity on packets going out to internet
iptables -A FORWARD -s ! $PRIVATE -i eth1 -j DROP

# Allow local loopback
iptables -A INPUT -s $LOOP -j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT -d $LOOP -j ACCEPT

# Allow incoming pings (can be disabled)
iptables -A INPUT -p icmp --icmp-type echo-request -j ACCEPT

# Allow services such as www and ssh (can be disabled)
iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport http -j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport ssh -j ACCEPT

# Allow incoming OpenVPN packets
# Duplicate the line below for each
# OpenVPN tunnel, changing --dport n
# to match the OpenVPN UDP port.
#
# In OpenVPN, the port number is
# controlled by the --port n option.
# If you put this option in the config
# file, you can remove the leading '--'
#
# If you taking the stateful firewall
# approach (see the OpenVPN HOWTO),
# then comment out the line below.

iptables -A INPUT -p udp --dport 5000 -j ACCEPT

# Allow packets from TUN/TAP devices.
# When OpenVPN is run in a secure mode,
# it will authenticate packets prior
# to their arriving on a tun or tap
# interface. Therefore, it is not
# necessary to add any filters here,
# unless you want to restrict the
# type of packets which can flow over
# the tunnel.

iptables -A INPUT -i tun+ -j ACCEPT
iptables -A FORWARD -i tun+ -j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT -i tap+ -j ACCEPT
iptables -A FORWARD -i tap+ -j ACCEPT

# Allow packets from private subnets
iptables -A INPUT -i eth1 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A FORWARD -i eth1 -j ACCEPT

# Keep state of connections from local machine and private subnets
iptables -A OUTPUT -m state --state NEW -o eth0 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
iptables -A FORWARD -m state --state NEW -o eth0 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A FORWARD -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT

# Masquerade local subnet
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s $PRIVATE -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE