How To:Set Up iptables for Amanda
Configuration with iptables
Objective
The purpose of this page is to provide a quick recipie for configuring a firewall using iptables for use with AMANDA.
More detailed information about port usage can be found in the AMANDA documentation.
Assumptions
We assume the following:
- a tape server host, TSHost, having IP address 192.168.2.2
- TSHost is not directly connected to the Internet
- TSHost is also an AMANDA backup client
- firewall server FWHost with IP address 192.168.2.1
- FWHost is also an AMANDA backup client
- FWHost is accessible from the Internet through IP address 1.2.3.4
- local host LHost with IP address 192.168.2.3
- remote host RHost, accessible via 2.3.4.5
IP Traffic
To be continued...