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The intended audience for this document is Andrew Grimo's the OPS235 linux admin class. It is a guide to Iptables iptables in the context of what OPS235 is currently studying and therefore a variety of its complexities will not be explored here. All are welcome to reference this document and refine what it is trying to convey to be more accurate or precise.

* how Iptables iptables command lines are structured and understood

<pre> dest. src. --------- --------- ---------- | routing localhost Local process|F12Host|>-wire--->eth0|Fedora2|->eth0 -> decision --> INPUT chain -->filtering --> or application--------- | is made \ of rules ------------------- is made \ of rules \

== Sample Scripts <pre> # iptables -F // flushes the rules from our Lab Material ==the table # iptables -L // lists the rules running in memory # iptables -P INPUT DROP // creates a policy to DROP packets inbound # iptables -A OUTPUT -j LOG // logs outgoing traffic to /var/log/messages # iptables -I 1 OUTPUT -p tcp -s 0/0 -d 0/0 --dport 80 -j DROP // drop outbound web // requests and inserts // at line 1 in the chain  # iptables -I INPUT 3 -p tcp -s 192.168.235.0/24 -d f12host --dport ssh -j DROP </pre>