Firewall rules using iptables using conditional statement [closed]

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I have firewall rule that should accept all the connections, but drop connections from a ssh brute force attack (except 10.0.0.0/8 range). This rule will block an IP if it attempts more than 24 connections per 10minute.

    # Firewall configuration written by system-config-firewall
# Manual customization of this file is not recommended.
*filter
:INPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
:FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0]
:OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
-A INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -p icmp -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -p tcp --dport 22 -s ! 10.0.0.0/8 -m state --state NEW -m recent --set --name SSH
-A INPUT -p tcp --dport 22 -s ! 10.0.0.0/8 -m state --state NEW -m recent --update --seconds 600 --hitcount 25 --rttl --name SSH -j DROP
-A INPUT -j ACCEPT
-A FORWARD -j ACCEPT
COMMIT

It errors out when I try to start iptables as bad arguement.

iptables: Applying firewall rules: Bad argument `10.0.0.0/8'

Answer 1

This was talked before in SF. iptables changed the way it accept parameters. Now the bang should be before the parameter, so your lines becomes this:

-A INPUT -p tcp --dport 22 ! -s 10.0.0.0/8 -m state --state NEW -m recent --set --name SSH
-A INPUT -p tcp --dport 22 ! -s 10.0.0.0/8 -m state --state NEW -m recent --update --seconds 600 --hitcount 25 --rttl --name SSH -j DROP

And yes, every blog in internet is wrong.