Best book or tutorial for iptables

[Jonathan Underwood]

On 11/09/2007, Eric <spamsink at scoot.netis.com> wrote:
> At 10:53 AM 9/11/2007, Jonathan Underwood wrote:
>
>  >> http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=iptables+tutorial
>
> Good afternoon, Jonathan.
>
> Thanks, I actually know how to find things like that with Google, but I was
> hoping to get some thoughts on which of the hundreds of thousands of hits
> I'm likely to get will actually lead to good resources (that's why I asked
> if there were any recommendations for the "best"...).
>
> You can't find that from a search engine (usually).

Try the first hit. It's worth the investment, really.

You might consider a front end to iptables though - for me, shorewall
represents the best approach to that currently.

Jonathan.