iptables
Tool and Usage
Project details
- License
- GPLv2 or later
- Programming language
- C
- Latest release
- No release found
- Latest release date
- Unknown
Project health
Usage and audience
iptables is commonly used for network traffic filtering. Target users for this tool are general public.
Features
- Command line interface
Tool review and remarks
The review and analysis of this project resulted in the following remarks for this security tool:
Strengths
- + The source code of this software is available
- + Well-known tool
Installation
Supported operating systems
Iptables is known to work on Linux.
iptables alternatives
Similar tools to iptables:
nftables
nftables is a subsystem of the Linux kernel to filter and classify network traffic and supposed to replace netfilter.
Douane
Douane is an application firewall that interacts with the user to allow or deny new network connections.
Anti-DDOS
Anti-DDOS is an open source software project developed to protect against DDoS attacks. The project consists of a shell script to set up iptables for traffic filtering. Additionally, it will configure kernel parameters to better withstand lots of network traffic.
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Categories
This tool is categorized as a Linux firewall and network traffic filtering tool.