IPtables rules are just another config file. As such, use puppet (or equivalent) to manage them. I'm fairly indifferent to the likes of Shorewall. They're nice for creating complex rulesets on gateway ...

When you use IPTables to create a firewall for your company's Web server, one way to prevent certain users from accessing the server is to block their IP addresses. Use the "iptables" command to ...

I've been having trouble setting up iptables manually, so I was wondering if there's a nice GUI front-end for configuring it? I'm using FC 1. thank you!

In my last column, I sang the praises of application-layer proxy firewalls and introduced Balazs Scheidler's Zorp firewall suite, available in both commercial and free-of-charge versions. This column ...