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Revision as of 15:20, 7 March 2009
iptables is a packet filtering, NAT/PAT and packet mangling tool for Linux. Used by a variety of Linux distributions including Ubuntu, Redhat and CentOS. Iptables is highly configurable and are used in many firewall solutions.
Using IPTABLES
Iptables is a commandline command with numerous options, and need some training to master. Basically iptables has three chain.s
- forward: Packets traversing from one Interface to another Interface
- input : Packets from a Interface to a local process on the machine. A packet from outside to the machine.
- output : Packets from a local process - the machine itself - to the outside world.
