At 06:54 PM 2/1/2005 -0500, Eve Atley wrote:
[skipping a lot]
2. I flushed the nasty port 23 away from the iptables, and attempted to add
5901 using the following command:
iptables -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -p tcp
--destination-port 5901 -j ACCEPT
3. Now 'iptables -nvL' gi
Thanks, Ray, for your info so far. Here's what I've discerned...
1. Netstat does show 5901 is running (with much snipped)...
Active Internet connections (only servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State
tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:58010.0.0.0:*
At 11:48 AM 2/1/2005 -0500, Eve Atley wrote:
I'm wanting to set up to allow port 23 to be accepted via the internet in my
Linux box running RedHat Linux Enterprise Workstation. I did some research
and have an output pasted below; am I truly allowing input/output from the
internet?
What I truly am
Based on someone's advice, I wanted to indicate I used the following command
to get the iptables info:
/sbin/iptables -L
The command 'iptables -n -L' gives me the following:
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
RH-Firewall-1-INPUT all -- 0.
I'm wanting to set up to allow port 23 to be accepted via the internet in my
Linux box running RedHat Linux Enterprise Workstation. I did some research
and have an output pasted below; am I truly allowing input/output from the
internet?
What I truly am attempting to do is telnet to port 5201 in o
