Linux – “Bad argument ‘NEW'” when configuring iptables

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I am getting the following error when configuring iptables on a Debian 7.6 server to log new TCP connections:

Bad argument `NEW'

Error occurred at line: ##

The line throwing the error is formatted as such:

-A INBOUND-ACCEPT -p tcp -m state --state NEW -j LOG --log-prefix ' NEW INBOUND TCP ' --log-level 4

I am using the 'iptables-restore' command to apply firewall rules from a file. What is the problem with my configuration here? Any assistance is greatly appreciated.

NOTE INBOUND-ACCEPT is a chain I created to facilitate logging for accepted packets. There are a few other similarly formatted lines in the chain for UDP and ICMP logging, but fixing the issue for this rule will allow me to fix the problem for the other lines in my rules file.

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Try switching to double quotes instead of single after --log-prefix

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You're sending the traffic to 10.52.208.221. Given the config you posted, your problem is the webserver, not the firewall. Your rules look to be correct. FORWARD and INPUT are redirected to RH-Firewall-1-INPUT where your first rule is to allow all traffic. As somebody else pointed out, you could be allowing all traffic on eth1, while the world is actually coming in eth0. Secondary, you have to NAT the traffic as it goes back out to the world

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Your traffic originating from the router will never hit the input or forward chains, but instead traverse the output chain on to the webserver. Other systems in that subnet will similarly go directly to the webserver. Systems out on the world at large however will traverse the INPUT / FORWARD chains and need SNAT as well as DNAT so that it appears to the world to be one machine. You still cannot test from within your network. you must test from the opposite interface from the webserver. Get me your IP addresses and I'll point you to the proper configs.

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You must put

ACCEPT     udp  --  anywhere             anywhere            udp spts:snmp:snmptrap dpts:1024:65535 state ESTABLISHED

before RH-Firewall-1-INPUT because of on RH-Firewall-1-INPUT rules there is REJECT on the end of line, the iptables read from top to down.

 Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
 target     prot opt source               destination
 1 RH-Firewall-1-INPUT  all  --  anywhere             anywhere
 2 ACCEPT     udp  --  anywhere             anywhere            udp spts:snmp:snmptrap dpts:1024:65535 state ESTABLISHED

If you want to add using command line, you can use:

 iptables -I OUTPUT 1 -p udp -s 0/0 --sport 1024:65535 -d 0/0 --dport 161:162 -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
 iptables -I INPUT 1 -p udp -s 0/0 --sport 161:162 -d 0/0 --dport 1024:65535 -m state --state ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT

It should be like:

 Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
 target     prot opt source               destination
 1 ACCEPT     udp  --  anywhere             anywhere            udp spts:snmp:snmptrap dpts:1024:65535 state ESTABLISHED
 2 RH-Firewall-1-INPUT  all  --  anywhere             anywhere

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