Common Firewall Rules and Commands in iptables | Linux Today

Common Firewall Rules and Commands in iptables

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Jun 13, 2018

Today we are going to show you some common firewall rules and commands in iptables. Iptables is a useful command line utility for configuring Linux kernel firewall. Iptables contains five tables: raw, filter, nat, mangle and security. Each table consist of chains.

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