www.zdi.net/Linux/firewalls.html Andreasson, Oskar - IPTables Tutorial (http://www.BoingWorld.com/workshops/linux/iptables-tutorial) Bartley, Dirk - Netfilter Presentation, Kalamazoo LUG (http://kalamazoolinux.org/presentations/20010417) Russell, Rusty - Rusty's Unreliable Guides (the HOWTO by the main man) (http://netfilter.samba.org/unreliable-guides/index.html) Wreski, Dave - Linux Kernel Firewalling Matures: Netfilter (http://linuxsecurity.com/feature_stories/kernel-netfilter.html) Zeller, Craig - His original IPChains configuration file and firewall scripts: (http://www.zdi.net/Linux/firewalls.html) Tons of example scripts available at: http://www.linuxguruz.org/iptables Join the Netfilter mailing list: http://us4.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/netfilter http://www.malibyte.net/iptables/iptables.html ---- http://www.linuxsecurity.com/feature_stories/feature_story-94.html http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1769/sam0112a/0112a.htm In the first link is another link to what seems to be a complete IPTables tutorial (prints out to 95 pages). The FAQ is located: http://netfilter.samba.org/netfilter-faq.html Try and Google search for "netfilter" plus "iptables" for full results. There was also an extremely useful discussion on iptables in the past few months on a mailing list run by the Security Focus team (www.securityfocus.com) when a collated list was distributed of sample config files alongside explanations. Suggest www.securityfocus.com then search through the mailing lists for iptables/netfilter. http://www.linuxguruz.org/iptables/ also has some sample scripts for various network situations. =========================================================================== http://www.zdi.net/Linux/firewalls.html http://www.linuxdoc.org/LDP/nag2/x-087-2-firewall.example.html http://www.linuxdoc.org/LDP/nag2/x-087-2-firewall.checkingconf.html http://www.bagley.org/~doug/firewall/firewall.functions.iptables (for nfs clients) http://www.linuxguruz.org/iptables/scripts/rc.firewall_022.txt --- http://www.linuxsecurity.com/feature_stories/feature_story-94.html http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1769/sam0112a/0112a.htm In the first link is another link to what seems to be a complete IPTables tutorial (prints out to 95 pages). --- The FAQ is located: http://netfilter.samba.org/netfilter-faq.html Try and Google search for "netfilter" plus "iptables" for full results. There was also an extremely useful discussion on iptables in the past few months on a mailing list run by the Security Focus team (www.securityfocus.com) when a collated list was distributed of sample config files alongside explanations. Suggest www.securityfocus.com then search through the mailing lists for iptables/netfilter. http://www.linuxguruz.org/iptables/ also has some sample scripts for various network situations. --- http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=4815 I know this is a "spend money" type of suggestion, but I just bought the second edition of Ziegler's _Linux Firewalls_ book. It's been completely rewritten to cover iptables, and it looks *very* good: