iptables

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Tool and Usage

Project details

License
GPLv2 or later
Programming language
C
Latest release
No release found
Latest release date
Unknown

Project health

67
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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:

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nftables

nftables is a subsystem of the Linux kernel to filter and classify network traffic and supposed to replace netfilter.

81

Douane

Douane is an application firewall that interacts with the user to allow or deny new network connections.

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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.