Nov
30
2012
Wether you need to redirect telnet or ssh connections through a server because you don’t have direct access to your final destination or you’re planning a web server migration, traffic forwarding comes in handy in many situations. This is easily achieved on Linux distributions that come with IPtables. Yes, Iptables isn’t just a firewall but […]
Tags: firewall, iptables, linux, network
Feb
09
2010
As any other firewall, iptables is also able to do network statistics reporting. the -v (–verbose) option makes the list command (-L) show the packet and byte counters. Network stats are available on a per rule basis. Here’s an example on the INPUT chain: [stats@network_server]$ sudo iptables -nvL INPUT Chain INPUT (policy DROP 74941 […]
Tags: firewall, iptables, linux, network, stats, traffic
