How firewall works?

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How firewall works?

Post by kiowa » Thu Feb 01, 2007 8:39 pm

Looking at the iptables output I found nothing that explain why all incoming traffic from the wan.

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Re: How firewall works?

Post by Shotokan101 » Thu Feb 01, 2007 8:54 pm

kiowa wrote:Looking at the iptables output I found nothing that explain why all incoming traffic from the wan.

How does it works?
Can you post the iptables output ?
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Post by kiowa » Thu Feb 01, 2007 10:13 pm

# iptables -L -n
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination

Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
ipaccount all -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination

Chain ipaccount (1 references)
target prot opt source destination
all -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 account: network/netmask: 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 name: mynetwork short-listing

# iptables -L -n -t nat
Chain PREROUTING (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination

Chain POSTROUTING (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination[/b]
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Re: How firewall works?

Post by leila » Sat Oct 23, 2010 6:24 am

Can you please clarify the question or give more specifics. I have a feeling that you're not asking for the definition of Firewall but you want to know more about the traffic and the infos on the ip adds, right? I'm not sure really what you are asking about. Please compound
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