any good books for an iptables/netfilter newbie ?

any good books for an iptables/netfilter newbie ?

[zenn]

Well I guess the title/subject says it all...
I'm not new to networking or system engineering, just never needed a
firewall until now.
Can anyone recommend l good in-depth book?

Re: any good books for an iptables/netfilter newbie ?

[Dharmendra.T]

Linux Firewall I guess from orielly is a good one.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "zenn" <zenn@optushome.com.au>
To: <netfilter@lists.netfilter.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 5:20 PM
Subject: any good books for an iptables/netfilter newbie ?


> Well I guess the title/subject says it all...
> I'm not new to networking or system engineering, just never needed a
> firewall until now.
> Can anyone recommend l good in-depth book?
> 
> 

Re: any good books for an iptables/netfilter newbie ?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Dharmendra.T wrote:

> Linux Firewall I guess from orielly is a good one.

for rapidly-improving software like iptables, it's sort of
pointless to buy a real book, since those books are almost
invariably out of date by the time they hit the shelves.

i'd look for online docs, like oskar's online tutorial,
rather than shell out $$$ for something guaranteed to be
just a touch obsolete already.

rday

Re: any good books for an iptables/netfilter newbie ?

[Dharmendra.T]

I tried to find out the online tutorial. But could not. Could you send us
the link! Cause the info you have given is not sufficient.
Regards
Dharmendra.T
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>
To: "Dharmendra.T" <dharmu@nsecure.net>
Cc: "zenn" <zenn@optushome.com.au>; <netfilter@lists.netfilter.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 6:14 PM
Subject: Re: any good books for an iptables/netfilter newbie ?


> On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Dharmendra.T wrote:
>
> > Linux Firewall I guess from orielly is a good one.
>
> for rapidly-improving software like iptables, it's sort of
> pointless to buy a real book, since those books are almost
> invariably out of date by the time they hit the shelves.
>
> i'd look for online docs, like oskar's online tutorial,
> rather than shell out $$$ for something guaranteed to be
> just a touch obsolete already.
>
> rday
>

Re: any good books for an iptables/netfilter newbie ?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Dharmendra.T wrote:

> I tried to find out the online tutorial. But could not. Could you send us
> the link! Cause the info you have given is not sufficient.

www.frozentux.net

rday

Re: any good books for an iptables/netfilter newbie ?

[Bob Avery-Babel]

The link is:

http://iptables-tutorial.frozentux.net

Very good tutorial...

Bob


----- Original Message -----
From: "Dharmendra.T" <dharmu@nsecure.net>
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Cc: "zenn" <zenn@optushome.com.au>; <netfilter@lists.netfilter.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 6:58 AM
Subject: Re: any good books for an iptables/netfilter newbie ?


> I tried to find out the online tutorial. But could not. Could you send us
> the link! Cause the info you have given is not sufficient.
> Regards
> Dharmendra.T
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>
> To: "Dharmendra.T" <dharmu@nsecure.net>
> Cc: "zenn" <zenn@optushome.com.au>; <netfilter@lists.netfilter.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 6:14 PM
> Subject: Re: any good books for an iptables/netfilter newbie ?
>
>
> > On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Dharmendra.T wrote:
> >
> > > Linux Firewall I guess from orielly is a good one.
> >
> > for rapidly-improving software like iptables, it's sort of
> > pointless to buy a real book, since those books are almost
> > invariably out of date by the time they hit the shelves.
> >
> > i'd look for online docs, like oskar's online tutorial,
> > rather than shell out $$$ for something guaranteed to be
> > just a touch obsolete already.
> >
> > rday
> >
>
>
>

RE: any good books for an iptables/netfilter newbie ?

[Rob Sterenborg]

> Well I guess the title/subject says it all...
> I'm not new to networking or system engineering, just never 
> needed a firewall until now. Can anyone recommend l good 
> in-depth book?

Maybe you can also find what you need in the iptables tutorial at :
http://iptables-tutorial.frozentux.net/iptables-tutorial.html


Gr,
Rob