Mike Leone on 8 Apr 2011 08:39:37 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] Advise on SNMP config on RHEL 5 needed; iptables command?


On 4/7/2011 4:06 PM, Kevin McAllister wrote:
> I think you nailed it here.  
> 
> /sbin/service iptables status
> 
> Will dump your list of rules (so will iptables -L -n)
> 
> And I suspect you are blocking traffic to 161.

That appears to be it:

-----------------
[root@phaserv1:~] $ iptables -L -n
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination
RH-Firewall-1-INPUT  all  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0

Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination
RH-Firewall-1-INPUT  all  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination

Chain RH-Firewall-1-INPUT (2 references)
target     prot opt source    destination
ACCEPT     all  --  0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0
ACCEPT     icmp --  0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0    icmp type 255
ACCEPT     esp  --  0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0
ACCEPT     ah   --  0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0
ACCEPT     udp  --  0.0.0.0/0 224.0.0.251  udp dpt:5353
ACCEPT     udp  --  0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0    udp dpt:631
ACCEPT     tcp  --  0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0    tcp dpt:631
ACCEPT     all  --  0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0    state RELATED,ESTABLISHED
ACCEPT     tcp  --  0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0    state NEW tcp dpt:21
ACCEPT     tcp  --  0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0    state NEW tcp dpt:22
ACCEPT     tcp  --  0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0    state NEW tcp dpt:443
ACCEPT     tcp  --  0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0    state NEW tcp dpt:80
ACCEPT     tcp  --  0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0    state NEW tcp dpt:2301
ACCEPT     udp  --  0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0    state NEW udp dpt:2301
REJECT     all  --  0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0    reject-with icmp-host-prohibited
---------------

I don't see anything allowing UDP 161/162. So I would need to do:

iptables -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p udp s xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx -m udp --dport
161 -j ACCEPT

So it would only accept SNMP requests from the IP address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx?
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