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

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