From fca59bea770346cf1c1f9b0e00cb48a61b44a8f3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Harald Welte Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2015 21:00:20 +0100 Subject: import of old now defunct presentation slides svn repo --- 2001/netfilter-birmingham2001/abstract | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) create mode 100644 2001/netfilter-birmingham2001/abstract (limited to '2001/netfilter-birmingham2001') diff --git a/2001/netfilter-birmingham2001/abstract b/2001/netfilter-birmingham2001/abstract new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1f407b7 --- /dev/null +++ b/2001/netfilter-birmingham2001/abstract @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +Tutorial: Firewalling using netfilter/iptables in Linux 2.4 + +One of the major advantages of the new Linux 2.4.x kernel series is the +new packet filtering / NAT / packet mangling sybsystem, called iptables. +Iptables is the successor of ipchains and ipfwadm in 2.2 and 2.0 kernels. +Major new features are stateful firewalling, extensibility and better NAT +(Network Address Translation) support. + +Topics: + +- concepts behind new netfilter/iptables infrastructure +- usage of iptables +- case example of a real-world firewall +- current (experimental) netfilter work - or "what is patch-o-matic" +- writing netfilter/iptables extension modules + +The tutorial will be presented by two of the netfilter core team members, +Rusty Russel and Harald Welte -- cgit v1.2.3