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From: Jason Opperisano <opie@817west.com>
Subject: Re: Iptables
Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 17:43:01 -0400
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On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 10:13:26PM +0200, Chadley Wilson wrote:
> I have learn't quite a bit from this, I shall save this mail for future use. 
> By the way, this is my first attempt at my own firewall, mostly an effort to 
> learn and understand. I always used the Redhat default or Susefirewall2. But 
> am not confident that they do the job right, also I never really understood 
> how to customise them. Hence build your own, Ha hA, not s easy when you 
> haven't got the knowledge, but I am sure I will get there.

might i suggest a reading of Oskar's tutorial:

  http://iptables-tutorial.frozentux.net/iptables-tutorial.html

-j

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