[TriLUG] LT: Networking Tools

David Both dboth at millennium-technology.com
Mon Jul 1 14:41:07 EDT 2013


There is also fierwalld which is the new firewall in Fedora. Could someone 
discuss that?

On 07/01/2013 02:37 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Jul 2013 11:40:02 -0400
> Igor Partola <igor at igorpartola.com> wrote:
>
>> You could talk about iptables/ip6tables and cool things you could do
>> with a firewall other than blocking ports. For example, TARPIT,
>> various types of NAT (when used for good and not evil), throttling
>> ICMP, etc.
>>
>> Igor
> When talking of firewalls, don't forget OpenBSD's pf. I use a
> standalone OpenBSD/pf machine to keep the badguys off my ports, NAT
> to 192.168.100.0/24, and port forward ssh, every day.
>
> Thanks,
>
> SteveT
>
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