I felt the need to write this HOWTO because of, what I thought, is the poor
level of documentation on implementing Packet Filtering firewalls using the 2.4.x Netfilter packet filter. The HOWTO covers using native IPTables commands (ie. not using the ipchains.o) to implement a packet-filter based firewall and the various supported types of NAT.
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My name is Matt Wright. I'm 16 year-old student in Blackburn,
Lancashire. I'm a freelance Linux consultant. I am the proud owner of
a Duron 950Mhz (all I could easily afford) with 256MB SDRAM, Voodoo 4
Video Card, ATI All-in-Wonder Pro Video Card. I also have a 266Mhz Cyrix
that runs my USB ADSL connection, of which if you are reading this from
http://www.consultmatt.co.uk
you will be using.
