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Iptables-apply or how to avoid unnecessary site visits when changing firewall configuration

Today’s post is definitely of the short and sweet variety. I happened across the file list for iptables the other day and noticed a binary I had not come across before “iptables-apply”. Iptables-apply is a script that applies firewall rules and then waits a configurable amount of time, for user input, to confirm the changes …

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The importance of a minimal firewall.

I have long been an avid user of the well known interface to iptables – Shorewall. Of late though I have suspected it is slowing my network down. I once decided to see what actual iptables rules it was creating and ran “iptables -L”. There was a lot of output and I wasn’t sure was …

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