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Tips and Tricks for the Linux Network Admin

10/18/2006  
Relevance: 11.60
There's always something new and progressive in the free and open source software universe. Here's a roundup of some recent worthy happenings in the fun worlds of iptables and VoIP: getting SIP through iptables NAT firewalls, adding new modules to iptables with Patch-O-Matic, monitoring iptables in real-time, and a look at the excellent AstLinux,"the professional's PBX".
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A practical guide for IPtables and Linux security

03/28/2007  
Relevance: 10.24
A Step by step approach for how do you secure your Linux servers using IPtables. All you ever wanted to know about IPtables and then some...
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Linux Firewalls

01/04/2008  
Relevance: 8.54
Linux Firewalls, authored by Michael Rash and published by No Starch Press, covers five main topics: traditional packet filtering with iptables, port scan detection, snort rule translation, port knocking, and log visualization. At first I considered only skimming the chapters regarding iptables packet filtering. I have a good amount of experience with iptables, and have been running it for several years. Thankfully I decided to give the first chapter a good read. Right from the start, the book presented valuable information and pulled me in.
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Linux Server Administration: Basic Linux Firewalls

03/04/2008  
Relevance: 8.04
In this article Mark Rais shares some of the basics of setting up a Linux firewall using the iptables tool. It includes a review of some firewall options, basics of getting started, details of the iptables syntax and some example configurations.
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Step-By-Step Configuration of NAT with iptables

11/22/2006  
Relevance: 7.67
This tutorial shows how to set up network-address-translation (NAT) on a Linux system with iptables rules so that the system can act as a gateway and provide internet access to multiple hosts on a local network using a single public IP address. This is achieved by rewriting the source and/or destination addresses of IP packets as they pass through the NAT system.
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Setting Up iptables MASQUERADE

01/25/2008  
Relevance: 7.52
The simplest application of NAT is address translation from a more trusted segment to a less trusted segment. The simplest use of NAT with iptables is MASQUERADE.
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Howto Configure a Software Firewall using Firestarter

02/16/2008  
Relevance: 7.37
One of the great features included in Linux is the IPtables firewall. Unfortunately, its command-line use is rather complex, and it can be intimidating for even experienced Linux users to configure it. Firestarter is a friendly graphical interface that allows you to configure a software firewall in Linux using the built-in IPtables/IPchains utilities.
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iptables as a replacement for commercial enterprise firewalls

12/15/2007  
Relevance: 7.20
With IT budgets getting tighter, managers need to trim costs. Service contracts are expensive for any technology; firewalls are no exception. Netfilter, the project that provides the packet filtering program iptables, is a free firewall alternative. While it lacks the service contract of commercial solutions and a pretty interfaces to make firewall modification easy, it has solid performance, performs effectively at firewalling, and allows for add-on functionality to enhance its reporting and response functions.
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Blocking specific network applications with iptables

11/20/2007  
Relevance: 6.77
Many organizations face a productivity problem with employees who abuse chat programs like MSN Messenger. Some IT departments are instructed to block this kind of traffic for users who either abuse or simply don't require the software. You can block applications like MSN Messenger in your proxy server, but some clients may still have access to the applications, because there are many versions of MSN Messenger in use, making blocking the application with a proxy server difficult. Instead, block MSN Messenger traffic more easily with iptables.
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How to simulate a slow network with 'wanem'

10/16/2007  
Relevance: 5.16
Wanem is the perfect tool for you, if you are *not* a guru when it comes to TCP/IP, networking, routing, proxying, firewalling, gatewaying and iptables commandlines, but if you nevertheless want to test your application's performance when using network connections of all kinds and qualities.
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