TOS target support MARK target support LOG target support ipchains (2.2-style) support ipfwadm (2.0-style) support The ipfwadm Utility The ipfwadm (IP Firewall Administration) utility is the tool used to build the firewall rules for all kernels prior to 2.2.0. Its command syntax can be very confusing because it can do such a complicated range of things, but we’ll provide some common examples that will illustrate the most important variations of these. The ipfwadm utility is included in most modern Linux distributions, but perhaps not by default. There may be a specific software package for it that you have to install. If your distribution does not include it, you can obtain the source package from ftp.xos.nl in the /pub/linux/ipfwadm/ directory, and compile it yourself. The ipchains Utility Just as for the ipfwadm utility, the ipchains utility can be somewhat baffling to use at first. It provides all of the flexibility of ipfwadm with a simplified command syntax, and additionally provides a “chaining” mechanism that allows you to manage multiple rulesets and link them together. We’ll cover rule chaining in a separate section near the end of the chapter, because for most situations it is an advanced concept. The ipchains command appears in most Linux distributions based on the 2.2 kernels. If you want to compile it yourself, you can find the source package from its developer’s site at http://www.rustcorp.com/linux/ipchains/. Included in the source package is a wrapper script called ipfwadm-wrapper that mimics the ipfwadm command, but actually invokes the ipchains command. Migration of an existing firewall configuration is much more painless with this addition. The iptables Utility The syntax of the iptables utility is quite similar to that of the ipchains syntax. The changes are improvements and a result of the tool being redesigned to be extensible through shared libraries. Just as for ipchains, we’ll present iptables equivalents of the examples so you can compare and contrast its syntax with the others. The iptables utility is included in the netfilter source package available at http://www.samba.org/netfilter/. It will also be included in any Linux distribution based on the 2.4 series kernels. We’ll talk a bit about netfilter’s huge step forward in a section of its own later in this chapter. Three Ways We Can Do Filtering Consider how a Unix machine, or in fact any machine capable of IP routing, processes IP datagrams. The basic steps, shown in Figure 9.2 are:
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