... ciao: > On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, Simon Jester wrote: > where I can ask dumb questions and not feel like I just stepped > off a bus at Times Square with no clothes on? not to make too fine a point of it, but you'd probably go unnoticed at Times Square. > Really - IPTables rules mystify me. What I need is some help translating > plain english (ie, I want to block everything except x, y and z) to the > appropriate IPTables command/rule. as a suggestion: http://www.bastille-linux.org grab that code, and take a good look at it. i have a hunch you could probably "make" it without installing it. that should generate the script object, WITH comments. lots to be learned in reading them. > This list appears to be far too technical for my needs i have difficult relating that, to someone, who, is running linux with a need to 'modify' firewall behaviour ... -- ... it's not what you see , but in stead , notice ... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
