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@ikaruga2099 learn it! the motiv. comes alone: to filtering traffic, NATting Inet traf. to your lan, or masquerade the traf from lan to Inet
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@ikaruga2099 #ferm is a great and easy to use frontend for iptables
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@ikaruga2099 If you really need to find motivation, why do you need to learn it?
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@ikaruga2099 That aside, I recommend skipping iptables and learning a rules compiler. Like Shorewall http://www.shorewall.net/
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@samatjain and then iptables seems aimed for computers running as routers which is not me.... so correct me if i'm wrong
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@samatjain checked out shorewall, thanx
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@ikaruga2099 If you have a wireless ap and naughty neighbors, this could be practical use of iptables: http://bit.ly/14m5r2 !linux
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@ikaruga2099 iptables is so low-level, I can't say it's aimed at anything. There are "personal" firewall features in there
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@ikaruga2099 control over your PC wherever you are? SysAdmin job?
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@mkrenz Hey that iptables article is pretty cool
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