Updated (and repaired) Netfilter paper available for download

[Clive DaSilva]

Madison Kelly wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>   I have finished making the needed changes to the document I handed 
> out at the talk on Tuesday and now the updated version is available 
> for download.
>
>   What has changed?
>
>  - Changed the MAC matching flub to now represent matching the MAC 
> address of a gateway server on the third sample firewall.
>  - Added ICMP message 8 (ping) matching and dropping for the gateway 
> server to help hide it from simple ping-based scans.
>  - Fixed the typos and errors pointed out to me since the talk, 
> including my mistake about the nat chains not having default policies 
> and adding mention of the OUTPUT nat chain.
>
>   If anyone finds any errors in this version, by all means please do 
> let me know! The paper is currently only available as a PDF but I do 
> hope to convert it to a simple HTML document suitable for even text 
> browsers to read as soon as I get a chance.
>
>   With all that said, here is the download. Please enjoy and if you 
> can, let me know what you think (positive, negative or other!!).
>
> http://thelinuxexperience.com/whitepapers/TLE-WhitePaper_Netfilter-v1.1.pdf
>
> Madison
>
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Good job, Madison,

Thank you for the time and effort that you put into this project

Clive

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