starting and stopping Iptables

richard-g8jvm · Post by **richard-g8jvm** » Fri Sep 14, 2018 7:47 am

Hi
does iptables show as a process if you run ps ax
Is iptables a service ?
it does not respond to service or systemctl
I've got a problem with what was working redirecting packets from one port to another on another machine.
the ports are open

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nmap -v 192.168.1.80

Starting Nmap 7.60 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2018-09-14 12:32 BST
Initiating Ping Scan at 12:32
Scanning 192.168.1.80 [2 ports]
Completed Ping Scan at 12:32, 0.00s elapsed (1 total hosts)
Initiating Connect Scan at 12:32
Scanning odroidc1 (192.168.1.80) [1000 ports]
Discovered open port 22/tcp on 192.168.1.80
Completed Connect Scan at 12:32, 1.21s elapsed (1000 total ports)
Nmap scan report for odroidc1 (192.168.1.80)
Host is up (0.0059s latency).
Not shown: 996 closed ports
PORT     STATE    SERVICE
22/tcp   open     ssh
8081/tcp filtered blackice-icecap
8083/tcp filtered us-srv
8085/tcp filtered unknown

Read data files from: /usr/bin/../share/nmap
Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 1.28 seconds

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iptables -t nat -vL
Chain PREROUTING (policy ACCEPT 7 packets, 2020 bytes)
 pkts bytes target     prot opt in     out     source               destination         
    0     0 DNAT       tcp  --  any    any     anywhere             anywhere             tcp dpt:8083 to:192.168.1.70:8083
    1    40 DNAT       tcp  --  any    any     anywhere             anywhere             tcp dpt:tproxy to:192.168.1.71:7776
    0     0 DNAT       tcp  --  any    any     anywhere             anywhere             tcp dpt:8085 to:192.168.1.72:7777

Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT 7 packets, 2020 bytes)
 pkts bytes target     prot opt in     out     source               destination         

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT 2 packets, 147 bytes)
 pkts bytes target     prot opt in     out     source               destination         

Chain POSTROUTING (policy ACCEPT 2 packets, 147 bytes)
 pkts bytes target     prot opt in     out     source               destination         
    0     0 MASQUERADE  tcp  --  any    any     anywhere             odroid.lan           tcp dpt:8083

however, if I do a iptables-save to a file it shows the history of table modifications as well as the current rules.

I see on howtos etc that iptables can be started with "service iptables start" or systemctl start iptables
but I get no service replies.
Its very confusing
It was all working fine until I attempted to make a openvpn tunnel between machines, then it stopped.
openvpn is not enabled or running at the moment, until I can find out why, but I'm really stuck
thanks