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Kernel Korner - The Hidden Treasures of iptables

Issue 120

From Issue #120
April 2004

Apr 01, 2004  By Chris Lowth
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With these powerful add-ons for iptables you can match strings or port ranges in iptables rules or even create a tar pit for network abusers.
Acknowledgement

To Jane Lowth for drawing the figures of Tux.

Chris Lowth works as a consultant for Intercai Mondiale (www.intercai.co.uk), a UK-based telecommunications, IT and business consultancy. He designs security software and network management (OSS) solutions and attempts to play the guitar. Chris can be contacted at chris@lowth.com.

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awsome

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 02/10/2009 - 11:53.

great information, thanks alot.

Xtables-addons is the successor to patch-o-matic(-ng)

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Submitted by Danny Rawlins (not verified) on Mon, 01/19/2009 - 23:28.

Xtables-addons is the successor to patch-o-matic(-ng). Likewise, it contains extensions that were not accepted in the main iptables package.

Xtables-addons is different from patch-o-matic in that you do not have to patch or recompile either kernel or Xtables(iptables).

http://jengelh.medozas.de/projects/xtables/

Thanks

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Submitted by Skis (not verified) on Tue, 12/23/2008 - 18:51.

Wonderful ! thank you for this great post ! it really shows the power of iptables ! and this is juste a sample :)

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