The past few months have seen me digging deep into the world of TCP/IP and firewalls. It has been a fascinating journey into packet queueing and TCP headers, three-way handshakes and ICMP broadcasts.

The result of this research has been the ongoing creation of a firewall to protect my laptop against open networks, and my Internet server from port scanning and DoS attacks. I'm pretty certain I haven't even scratched the surface yet, but I have found some settings to protect against the most common attacks. In this article I summarize the major pieces of my new firewall, and the logic behind it. Read More...

Tags: Firewall, iptables