Linux's iptables allows powerful firewalls to be implemented at a minute fraction of the cost of many commercial offerings. Basic iptables firewalls are packet filters, which means they inspect the ...

For those of you who have taken the plunge and upgraded from kernel 2.2.X (or even 2.0.X) to 2.4.X, congratulations. If, like a number of folks, you're running some form of firewall using either ...