Routers contain a pre-defined port forwarding function that allows you to forwards certain ports to computer or devices on your local network. In most cases, these routers are nothing but computers designed to move data from one port or another. Also, the routers are most likely running a variant of Linux and that the firewall is running iptables. Here’s how you can foward ports to hosts on a Linux machine using iptables.
…Say you have a list of IP Addresses that you would like to blacklist from trying to access your server. Whether you are preventing intruders or bots from accessing such services like SSH or your website. You want to make a simple list that parses IP addresses and adds them into IPtables. Here’s how you can do such a thing.
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When running your computer as a router or server that involves forwarding data, it is important to configure NAT masquerading within your Linux machine. Without this, the packets will not be able to make it to a different subnet/network.
…Now that you’ve successfully installed and configured your Linux-based system, we are now going to secure it. The first, and most important step would be keeping any sort of malicious actor from trying to take over our computer/server. One of these methods involves blocking undesirable traffic by configuring iptables.
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