Dear SuSE Wizards, Anyone have a favorite tutorial that they reference for setting up iptables? I just finally got myself trained on ipchains but I guess I'm going to have to get retrained.... An online resource would be best, but a good book will do, as well. I have Robert Zigler's "Linux Firewalls" which helped get me up and running for a couple of years, but that is mostly about ipchains--iptables isn't even in the index. His web site, http://linux-firewall-tools.com/linux/firewall was awesome for creating what appeared to have been a decent firewall, though I never could get it to come up on it's own (always had to manually start it, which was a pain). I'm been ruined by point and click!!! Unfortunately, even with support for both ipchains and iptables in the 2.4 kernel, I think it's time to "upgrade" my knowledge base rather than being content to live in the past... TIA for any tips. -- Andrew Lietzow The ACL Group, Inc.
On Tuesday 20 August 2002 6:19 pm, Andrew Lietzow wrote:
Anyone have a favorite tutorial that they reference for setting up iptables? I just finally got myself trained on ipchains but I guess I'm going to have to get retrained.... An online resource would be best, but a good book will do, as well.
Andrew, Although I am not a wizard by any account, I can highly reccommend the Shorewall Firewall at www.shorewall.net The quickstart guide will answer most of your questions and if you have any real problems the author Tom Eastep, gives superb support. Richard
* Andrew Lietzow (andrewl@mail.microanswers.net) [020820 16:33]: :: ::TIA for any tips. :: http://iptables-tutorial.haringstad.com/ I bet this would be a good starting place. :) -=Ben --=====-----=====-- mailto:ben@whack.org --=====-- Tell me what you believe..I tell you what you should see. -DP --=====-----=====--
Andrew Lietzow wrote: [ snip ]
I have Robert Zigler's "Linux Firewalls" which helped get me up and running for a couple of years, but that is mostly about ipchains--iptables isn't even in the index. [ snip ]
The SECOND EDITION of Robert Ziegler's "Linux-Firewalls" comes now with iptables! Great book, i can only recommend it. :) ciao, Chris
On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Andrew Lietzow wrote:
Dear SuSE Wizards,
Anyone have a favorite tutorial that they reference for setting up iptables? I just finally got myself trained on ipchains but I guess I'm going to have to get retrained.... An online resource would be best, but a good book will do, as well.
I have Robert Zigler's "Linux Firewalls" which helped get me up and running for a couple of years, but that is mostly about ipchains--iptables isn't even in the index.
His web site, http://linux-firewall-tools.com/linux/firewall was awesome for creating what appeared to have been a decent firewall, though I never could get it to come up on it's own (always had to manually start it, which was a pain). I'm been ruined by point and click!!!
Unfortunately, even with support for both ipchains and iptables in the 2.4 kernel, I think it's time to "upgrade" my knowledge base rather than being content to live in the past...
Seems like you know a bit of what you're doing, so have a look at Rusty's Remarkably Unreliable Guides at http://www.netfilter.org/unreliable-guides/ There are even figures of which table/chain is called where in the routing process ;-) Also, the man page of iptables is quite exhaustive once you know what you want. Ciao, Roland +---------------------------+-------------------------+ | TU Muenchen | | | Physik-Department E18 | Raum 3558 | | James-Franck-Str. | Telefon 089/289-12592 | | 85747 Garching | | +---------------------------+-------------------------+
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