Thanks a lot! Original Message: ----------------- From: Alexander Dalloz alexander.dalloz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 18:20:24 +0200 To: vlad@xxxxxxxxxxx, fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: TCP Port Blocking / Opening Am Do, den 22.07.2004 schrieb vlad@xxxxxxxxxxx um 18:03: > I want to block/open TCP ports from terminal, how do I go about doing that? > What commands do I use? I don't want to use any GUIs, I want to understand > how it works. iptables The documentation is to be found on www.netfilter.org. iptables is the tool to set the netfilter registers in the kernel, through which the net packets go. Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG key 1024D/ED695653 1999-07-13 Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 (Tettnang) kernel 2.6.6-1.435.2.3.ad.umlsmp Serendipity 18:18:42 up 3:06, 11 users, 0.22, 0.38, 0.38 -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ .