# Access control / firewalls / iptables
**URL:** https://forums.suse.com/t/access-control-firewalls-iptables/7690
**Category:** General
**Created:** [October 31, 2017, 2:38am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/access-control-firewalls-iptables/7690 "2017-10-31T02:38:17Z")
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### Author:  [@bpbp-boop](https://forums.suse.com/u/bpbp-boop)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2017, 2:38am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/access-control-firewalls-iptables/7690/1 "2017-10-31T02:38:17Z")
Hi all,
What’s the best way to manage IP based access control to stacks on Rancher hosts? Rules in the INPUT chain seem to be bypassed (and even if they worked would need to be manually added to each host)
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### Author:  [@bpbp-boop](https://forums.suse.com/u/bpbp-boop)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2017, 12:58am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/access-control-firewalls-iptables/7690/2 "2017-11-01T00:58:27Z")
I’ve worked around this limitation by moving my IP access control to an external firewall.