Ipchains and Iptables

Wed Dec 17 11:14:17 2003

On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 05:23:54AM -0500, Derick Centeno wrote:
> I sent in a query regarding ipchains and got a response regarding 
> iptables (which I'm appreciative of) which I attempted.  It was nice to 
> discover that at least the response was approving the guessing I was 
> engaging in.
> However, I decided after seeing the output of ./iptables -L, that there 
> had to be a better way other than becoming an expert on nearly every 
> little nuance.  

Apart from the other suggestions regarding firewall front ends, if you
want to find out more about iptables you could try looking at:

http://iptables-tutorial.frozentux.net/iptables-tutorial.html

(or do a google search for `iptables tutorial' to come up with other
locations).  It is probably more than you are interested in, but will
provide a lot of information :-).

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