Richard Ibbotson wrote:
I managed to pick up a copy of this book dead cheap at the cheap book shop on the Moor. but the isbn number I have is 0-7357-0900-9 which refers to the first edition. The principles are the same though so it's been a very useful purchase but I also had the advantage of the SuSE default firewall using iptables. I often refer to the man pages for iptables, and don't forget iptables-save and iptables-restore.DouglasCan anyone recommend a good how-to or book on iptables? I'm going to try and build my own, so anything from beginner would be brilliant.
I started from beginner and had to teach myself with this...
http://iptables-tutorial.frozentux.net/iptables-tutorial.html
There's a few sites out there on the net but this is the best one. I found that it wasn't good enough for me so I got on a jet to New York and took the Acela Express to Boston to interview Bob Ziegler who then signed a copy of his book for me. When I came home this was published in Linux Magazine. Anyone wants to read a PDF version of this I can mail it to them. The best book I've seen about iptables is "Linux Firewalls - Includes full coverage of iptables" by Robert L. Ziegler. ISBN 0-7357-1099-6. Published by New Riders.
If you don't quite crack iptables - and some people don't - I'd suggest IP Cop or m0n0wall...
http://www.ipcop.org/
http://www.m0n0.ch/wall/
best with Soekris hardware but you can use other things...
https://kd85.com/soekris.html
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