Scripting a firewall with iptables

November 26, 2008

IPTables is a text based frontend for the ipchains kernel module. The ipchains support is compiled into most kernels of todays distributions. With iptables you don’t have to use a graphical tool. So it’s very suitable for scritpting.
First thing to do is installing neccessary packages, for Ubuntu / Debian:
apt-get update
apt-get install iptables
When the package is [...]

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