FireWall and Virus

Sat Jan 5 02:56:23 UTC 2008

On Friday 04 January 2008, Derek Broughton wrote:
> LOL.  I've been using Linux since before iptables (and even before its
> precursor - ipchains) but I agree completely.  I barely understood ipchains
> and never really got a handle on iptables.

I love the "simple" tutorials too.

   10) root:~> /sbin/iptables -L -n --line-numbers
   Chain INPUT (policy DROP)
   num  target     prot opt source               destination         
   1    LOG        tcp  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0          tcp   
   flags:!0x16/0x02 state NEW LOG flags 0 level 4 prefix `NEW NOT SYN: ' 
   2    DROP       tcp  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0          tcp
   flags:!0x16/0x02 state NEW 

(http://www.cse.msu.edu/~minutsil/iptables.html)

Oh yeah, that's perfectly clear now.  Thanks.

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D. Michael McIntyre 