On Sunday 27 January 2008, Michael Quick wrote:
> If you type netstat -ntlp you'll see what ports are listening.

   Most things use TCP but a small number use UDP.  To see UDP ports that are 
listening, change the -t option to a -u.  I usually use -tlp to see the ports 
by service name rather than by number.

   And on a somehwat unrelated note, for some reason the 'route' command on 
Mac OSX doesn't show the routes, so it's necessary to use 'netstat -nr' for 
that instead.

> The command /sbin/iptables -L illustrates what traffic (ACKs) is
> actually allowed through to the system 'unsolicited'.

   I assume ACKs = 'ACCEPT' rules.
   I now commonly use iptables -nvL which shows the rules [L], a count of how 
many packets each rule matched [v], and without doing DNS lookups on all the 
IP addresses in the rules [n].  I didn't know the -v part until someone at 
Nylug pointed it out.

   -- Chris

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