What is it? iptables is a cli frontend to netfilter, the Linux kernel firewall/nat implementation for OSI layer 3 and 4.
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iptables best practices
Don’t use iptables to apply your rules one at a time, use iptables-restore to apply a whole ruleset in one action. Set your INPUT and FORWARD policy to DROP. Don’t set your OUTPUT policy to DROP unless you really know what you’re doing. If you’re going to implement a blacklist or whitelist, you should look …
Summary page of the Netfilter related resources
Please note that we moved from Freenode to libera.chat because Freenode was taken over by Andrew Lee Summary page of the Netfilter related resources iptables 101 and FAQ to get started quickly iptables tutorial from frozentux flowgraph of the packets in netfilter as svg Managing large lists of IPs,subnets, protocols or ports in iptables using ipset …
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