Re: [suse-security] iptables wildcard for IP Addresses?

[Dave Lists <dave.lists@xxxxxxxxx>]

While on the topic of iptables changes through releases. Does 9.3 have
the tartpit and the string modules for iptables?

Dave.

Martin Köhling wrote:

> Hi!
>
>  
>
> > I want to enable several (ten) hosts to access my VPN. I am using SuSEfirewall 
> > and I have custom iptables rules in SuSEfirewall2-custom.
> > Now i want to add one rule for all these hosts. I know that "!" is the 
> > wildcard for "any host but the following".
> > How can I add an iptables rule affecting Source IPs from e.g. 1.1.1.10 to 
> > 1.1.1.20? 
> > I've been looking, but i didn't ind something.
> >    
>
> You might try the "iprange" packet matching module (-m iprange); it's not
> domcumented in the man page, but "iptables -m iprange --help" prints the
> following (at the end):
>
> iprange match v1.2.9 options:
> [!] --src-range ip-ip        Match source IP in the specified range
> [!] --dst-range ip-ip        Match destination IP in the specified range
>
> So you should be able to use something like:
>
> iptables -A INPUT -m iprange --src-range 1.1.1.10-1.1.1.20 -j ACCEPT
>
> This is present in SuSE 9.1, but apparently not in earlier versions.
>
> Martin
>
>  



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