Best book or tutorial for iptables

[Timothy Murphy]

Joe Tseng wrote:

> I've been trying to get up to speed as well regarding iptables as well,
> and although your problems may differ from mine, my issue has been that
> the
> "tutorials" online teach you everything plus the kitchen sink.  I came to
> realize that a) I have a specific problem to solve and b) I want a concise
> example that would help me achieve that goal while still teaching me
> concepts that a tutorial would.
> 
> With that said, I found this recently:
> 
> http://www.faqs.org/docs/iptables/examplescripts.html
> 
> The subsequent pages have network layout illustrations depicting the
> behavior dictated by the commands that appear later in those pages.  From
> the brief bit I've seen it ought to help people who want to get going
> quickly.

Isn't it much easier to run shorewall, or a similar package?

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