Linux firewalls

"Linux Firewalls discusses the technical details of the iptables firewall and the Netfilter framework that are built into the Linux kernel, and it explains how they provide strong filtering, Network Address Translation (NAT), state tracking, and application layer inspection capabilities that ri...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rash, Michael
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: San Francisco No Starch Press 2007
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Collection: O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Ch. 1. Care and Feeding of iptables
  • Ch. 2. Network Layer Attacks and Defense
  • Ch. 3. Transport Layer Attacks and Defense
  • Ch. 4. Application Layer Attacks and Defense
  • Ch. 5. Introducing psad: The Port Scan Attack Detector
  • Ch. 6. Psad Operations: Detecting Suspicious Traffic
  • Ch. 7. Advanced psad Topics: From Signature Matching to OS Fingerprinting
  • Ch. 8. Active Response with psad
  • Ch. 9. Translating Snort Rules into iptables Rules
  • Ch. 10. Deploying fwsnort
  • Ch. 11. Combining psad and fwsnort
  • Ch. 12. Port Knocking vs. Single Packet Authorization
  • Ch. 13. Introducing fwknop
  • Ch. 14. Visualizing iptables Logs
  • App. A. Attack Spoofing
  • App. B.A Complete fwsnort Script