This script is designed to set up a basic firewall configuration on a Linux system using iptables
. It is intended to enhance security by allowing only specific types of network traffic while blocking others. The script performs the following tasks:
- Environment Setup:
- The script is written in Bash (
#!/usr/bin/env bash
), which specifies the interpreter to use. - The script sets two important options:
set -o nounset
: This option ensures that using unset variables will cause an error.set -o pipefail
: This option ensures that a pipeline returns a failure status if any command in the pipeline fails.
- The script is written in Bash (