I posted a topic about my firewall script a few days ago and got a ton of help. Instead of reviving that topic, I decided to start a new one. <BR><BR>I'm trying to learn iptables firewalling and I ...

如上面的例子所示，每一个数据包都要通过三个内建的链(INPUT、OUTPUT和FORWARD)中的一个。 filter是最常用的表，上文所示设置所有的表规则的基本语法：iptables [-t table] command [match] [target]。 现实中，不一定要用到这里所列出的所有选项，也不一定是以这个顺序。

I have a server -running Fedora Core release 1 (Yarrow), if that matters- that I have enabled virtual NICs, only one; that is, the actual IP, plus an extra one. The NIC works fine, it starts ...

Dear readers, I appear to have set a Paranoid Penguin record—six months spent on one article series. (It has consisted of five installments, with a one-month break between the second and third pieces.

I've been writing a multipart series on building a transparent (bridging) firewall using Linux. Specifically, I'm using the distribution OpenWrt running on a Linksys WRT54GL broadband router, a ...

Mastering iptables could take a while, but if you have a few rules to cover the basic security needs, you'll be well on your way to protecting your Linux system. Jack Wallen explains some key rules to ...

Iptables, more properly referred to as “iptables/netfilter” because of the two modules that are involved — the userspace module “iptables” and the kernel ...