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 ...

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.

Before we can start writing our own firewall rules, we need to have some understanding of how iptables actually works. It all starts with tables, which many of you have already guessed by the name.

For those of you who have taken the plunge and upgraded from kernel 2.2.X (or even 2.0.X) to 2.4.X, congratulations. If, like a number of folks, you're running some form of firewall using either ...

/sbin/iptables -A FORWARD -p all -s 172.16.1.105 -j DROP /sbin/iptables -A FORWARD -p all -s 172.16.1.25 -j DROP /sbin/iptables -A FORWARD -p all -s 172.16.1.78 -j ...