Linux Iptables Pocket Reference Firewalls, NAT and Accounting

Name: Linux Iptables Pocket Reference Firewalls, NAT and Accounting
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ISBN: 9780596005696

ISBN-10: 0596005695

ISBN-13: 9780596005696

Edition: 2004

Authors: Gregor N. Purdy

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Firewalls, Network Address Translation (NAT), network logging and accounting are all provided by Linux's Netfilter system, also known by the name of the command used to administer it, iptables. The iptables interface is the most sophisticated ever offered on Linux and makes Linux an extremely flexible system for any kind of network filtering you might do. Large sets of filtering rules can be grouped in ways that makes it easy to test them and turn them on and off. Do you watch for all types of ICMP traffic--some of them quite dangerous? Can you take advantage of stateful filtering to simplify the management of TCP connections? Would you like to track how much traffic of various types you…

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List price: $9.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/4/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 96
Size: 4.21" wide x 6.97" long x 0.24" tall
Weight: 0.198
Language: English

Gregor N. Purdy is engineering manager in the large account services group at Amazon.com. Before joining Amazon.com in 2003, Gregor worked for ten years as a consultant in high-end data warehousing, system integration, and prior art research in software and Internet patents. He has also contributed to a number of open source projects, including Perl core and extensionmodules, the Perl Shell, and the Parrot virtual machine for Perl 6.



Introduction


An Example Command


Concepts


Applications


Configuring iptables


Connection Tracking


Accounting


Network Address Translation (NAT)


Source NAT and Masquerading


Destination NAT


Transparent Proxying


Load Distribution and Balancing


Stateless and Stateful Firewalls


Tools of the Trade


iptables Command Reference


Getting help


The iptables Subcommands


iptables Matches and Targets


Utility Command Reference


iptables-restore


iptables-save


Index