[gentoo-user] conntrack and the netfilter howto

I'm trying to bone up on netfilter, iptables, conntrack etc etc. Using the howto at: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Iptables_and_stateful_firewalls#Firewall_design_basics Early on after describing how to generate a netfilter enabled kernel, the author has this to say: If you've already

Re: [gentoo-user] conntrack and the netfilter howto

Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If you've already rebooted and are using your new netfilter-enabled kernel, you can view a list of active network connections that your machine is participating in by typing cat /proc/net/ip_conntrack Even with no firewall configured, Linux's conntrack