Hi,

 

 

Idea is to run a wireguard server having two ethernet devices, therefore

added an USB3 adapter "ASIX AX88179" to my rockpi4a. 
I like to allow incoming traffic, incl SSH, on "eth1". Instead, outgoing, on eth0 ( RTL8211E ) 

 

 

I wrote following ( preps, nmcli, iptables ) up - but perhaps there is an easier approach and I am sure I am missing other (routing) stuff, for sure the forwarding part.

Anyway perhaps there is one to guide me a bit, TiA!

 

 

1/ preparations

 

apt update && apt -y upgrade && apt -y install firmware-realtek

 

nano /boot/armbianEnv.txt
# add extraargs=net.ifnames=0 

 

reboot

 

 

2/ nmcli stuff

 

nmcli c mod "Wired connection 2" connection.id realtek
nmcli c mod "Wired connection 1" connection.id asix

nmcli c mod asix ipv6.method ignore
nmcli c mod realtek ipv6.method ignore

nmcli c mod asix ipv4.never-default true


nmcli c up asix
nmcli c up realtek

 

 

3/ iptables "hardening"

# 1. Delete all existing rules
iptables -F

# 2. Set default chain policies to DROP all both eth0 and eth1
iptables -P INPUT DROP
iptables -P FORWARD DROP
iptables -P OUTPUT DROP

# 3. Allow SSH on eth1
iptables -A INPUT -i eth1 -p tcp --dport 22 -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT -i eth1 -p tcp --sport 22 -m state --state ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
iptables -A OUTPUT -o eth1 -p tcp --dport 22 -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
iptables -A OUTPUT -o eth1 -p tcp --sport 22 -m state --state ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT

# 4. Allow incoming Wireguard on eth1
iptables -A INPUT -i eth1 -p udp --dport 51820 -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
iptables -A OUTPUT -o eth1 -p udp --sport 51820 -m state --state ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
FORWARD? ( wg0 )

# 5. Allow outbound Wireguard on eth0
iptables -A OUTPUT -o eth0 -p udp --dport 51820 -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p udp --sport 51820 -m state --state ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
FORWARD? ( wg0 )

# 6. Allow outbound http(s) on eth0 ( eg updates )
iptables -A OUTPUT -o eth0 -p tcp -m multiport --sports 80,443 -m conntrack --ctstate ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
# iperf3 excluded for now

# 7. Accept all traffic on loopback interface
iptables -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT
iptables -A OUTPUT -o lo -j ACCEPT

 

 

I am not sure to understand what your problem is ?

 

I am interested because I use a board for (complex) firewalling with ethernet (for LAN) and direct usb connection to my box, need to upgrade (understand redo all), and of course had been confronted to the problem.

 

I have forgotten everything about the question but I remember having to face the problem of eth0, eth1 discrimination. Of course, in case of a firewall you don't want to leave configuration choice to hazard, or obscure hidden rules !

 

A quick look at my configuration scripts tell me that I resolved the problem by blacklisting cdc_ether and do modprobe manually after startup (so it become eth1) and then do iptable config.

 

My config is totally scripted of course : I doubt an auto-dynamic-guimanaged-meta configuration is suited for special cases.

cheers for your response.

 

eth0, eth1 solved by " extraargs=net.ifnames=0  " as @Igor pointed out in this topic

I cut down iptables script to the basics as shown below ,

allowing SSH on eth1 only and outbound traffic goes over eth0.

 

#!/bin/sh

# Delete all existing iptables rules
iptables -F

# Set default chain policies to DROP all
iptables -P INPUT DROP
iptables -P FORWARD DROP
iptables -P OUTPUT DROP

# Allow SSH on eth1
iptables -A INPUT -i eth1 -p tcp --dport 22 -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
iptables -A OUTPUT -o eth1 -p tcp --sport 22 -m state --state ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
iptables -A OUTPUT -o eth1 -p tcp --dport 22 -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT -i eth1 -p tcp --sport 22 -m state --state ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT

# Allow all outbound traffic eth0
iptables -I OUTPUT -o eth0 -d 0.0.0.0/0 -j ACCEPT
iptables -I INPUT -i eth0 -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT

 

 

Next part would be to update routing accordingly so outbound won't check for eth1 and go straight to eth0, etc etc