In the last post I walked you through a script to create a stateful packet inspection firewall. Which allowed out-going traffic to the internet, but which blocked in-coming traffic. In this part I’m going to explain how to open up specific ports (or holes). To allow certain types of internet traffic successfully through. As […]
Welcome back to this the second part of the discussion about IPtables, if you missed the first part you can find it here. As mentioned previously, I plan to get into some basic usage and hands-on practice. A few notes before we get started. Firstly: IPtables from the CLI requires root or administrative access for […]
How to use IPTables. What is IPTables? – Part 1 Many people may not be aware but Linux and many unix like operating systems have a firewall built into it, which is most commonly known as iptables. Unlike most consumer-based firewalls, iptables is CLI or command line interface based. Although there are a variety […]
