Netexpertise

Whether 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 for ACL rules, but […]

Tags: firewall, iptables, linux, network

As for any firewall, iptables is able to do network statistics reporting. the -v (–verbose) option along with the list switch (-L) show packets and bytes counters.Network stats are available on a per rule basis. Here is an example on the INPUT chain:   In this example, you could split the RELATED and ESTABLISHED state rule […]

Tags: firewall, iptables, linux, network