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Kladskull
Asked: 2010-07-18 05:28:50 +0800 CST

How to allow a range of IP's with IPTABLES?

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Here is my iptables, how can I make it so that I can allow a range of ip's on ETH1 (10.51.x.x)

# Generated by iptables-save v1.4.4 on Thu Jul  8 13:00:14 2010
*filter
:INPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
:FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0]
:OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
:fail2ban-ssh - [0:0]
-A INPUT -p tcp -m multiport --dports 22 -j fail2ban-ssh 
-A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT 
-A INPUT -d 127.0.0.0/8 ! -i lo -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-port-unreachable 
-A INPUT -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT 
-A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 443 -j ACCEPT 
-A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 143 -j ACCEPT 
-A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 110 -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 25 -j ACCEPT 
-A INPUT -p tcp -m state --state NEW -m tcp --dport 22 -j ACCEPT 
-A INPUT -p icmp -m icmp --icmp-type 8 -j ACCEPT 
-A INPUT -m limit --limit 5/min -j LOG --log-prefix "iptables denied: " --log-level 7 
-A INPUT -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-port-unreachable 
-A FORWARD -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-port-unreachable 
-A OUTPUT -j ACCEPT 
-A fail2ban-ssh -j RETURN 
COMMIT
iptables

4 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    If you only want to allow a certain range of IP addresses inside of 10.50.0.0 (such as from 10.50.10.20 through 10.50.10.80) you can use the following command:

    iptables -A INPUT -i eth1 -m iprange --src-range 10.50.10.20-10.50.10.80 -j ACCEPT

    If you want to allow the entire range you can use this instead:

    iptables -A INPUT -i eth1 -s 10.50.0.0/16 -j ACCEPT

    See iptables man page and this question here on ServerFault: Whitelist allowed IPs (in/out) using iptables

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  2. For a specific port, say 22:

    iptables -A INPUT -p tcp  -m iprange --src-range  10.50.10.20-10.50.10.80  --dport 22  -j ACCEPT
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  3. Well you did saw what you want to allow those IPs for but 10.51.x.x in CIDR translates to 10.50.0.0/16. So it will be something like the line for the loopback interface that has 127.0.0.0/8.

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  4. iptables -A INPUT -i eth1 -m iprange --src-range 10.50.10.20-80 -j ACCEPT

    May give the following error:

    iptables: Applying firewall rules: xt_iprange: range 10.50.10.20-80 is reversed and will never match

    To correct this just put the full ip instead like this:

    iptables -A INPUT -i eth1 -m iprange --src-range 10.50.10.20-10.50.10.80 -j ACCEPT

    Ref.:http://blog.capitar.com/iptables-ip-range-reversed/

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