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Old 02-13-2013, 01:56 AM   #1
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Unhappy how to drop packets received on a port


I want to drop packets on computer a received to dst port yyy from a computer b with ip x.x.x.x. What is the exact iptable command or any other command to do that? pls tell how to do it with native linux utils, I can not install third party utils.
 
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iptables -A INPUT -s x.x.x.x -p tcp --dport yyy -j DROP

this needs to be inserted into the correct point in your existing rulebase though, possibly persistently defined in /etc/sysconfig/iptables
 
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Old 02-13-2013, 03:35 AM   #3
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Smile thanks lottt!!! it helped...:)

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iptables -A INPUT -s x.x.x.x -p tcp --dport yyy -j DROP

this needs to be inserted into the correct point in your existing rulebase though, possibly persistently defined in /etc/sysconfig/iptables
Hi, it worked like charm, thanks lot!!!
 
  


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