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Category Archives: IPTables/Netfilter

IPv6 for a Linux generation

07-Feb-10

IPv6 is nothing new – it was finally standardised back in 1998 in RFC 2460, and virtually all operating systems have supported it now for at least 5 years, so most people are in a position to give it a try. If you’re one of the lucky ones, your ISP might provide native IPv6 connectivity [...]

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IPTables: Fun with MARK

27-Jan-10

One thing that’s always bugged me about IPTables is the lack of a way to use groups when writing rules, which can complicate things if you’ve got a potentially large rulebase. One way round this is to use something like fwbuilder, which gives you a graphical interface not unlike Checkpoint‘s SmartDashboard GUI for their Firewall-1 [...]

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