[sf-lug] IP Tables information : WAS Re: ubuntu 16.04

[jim]

     A friend of mine sent me info, the most
important parts of which are these two links:

http://www.frozentux.net/iptables-tutorial/iptables-tutorial.html
really great! includes information about
TCP/IP and other networking info pertinent
to understanding IP Tables.

http://www.iptables.info/en/structure-of-iptables.html
Also great! totally hardball description
of IP Tables' structure itself.



On 08/05/2016 05:48 AM, jim wrote:
>
>     Ron and I have been trying to get servers
> working on old Dell boxes running Ubuntu 12.04.x.
> We could not get any of the hosts to support
> inbound network sessions (such as sshd and
> apache2 and exim4). My latest suspicion (on
> the order of superstition) is that the people
> who configured the old Dells did something to
> the BIOS that restricted use to the enterprise'
> purpose.
>     Ron and I took a long break.
>     I bought a new computer from Zareason and
> asked them to install sshd and apache2 and
> exim4 on it. I'm now logged in and looking at
> various features. It's really different from
> AT&T Sys V rev iii and also fairly different
> from Ubuntu 12.04.x too. And that's depressing.
>     I'd be interested in a KISS Linux distro.
>
>     It looks, at first blush, like Zareason
> techs did a good job: sshe and apache2 both
> work fine. I'm delaying facing exim4 for now.
>     My new host does not have a GUI, just the
> command line, which mainly works for me,
> excepting some GUI features for which I've
> not got GUI experience (wifi for example).
>
>
>
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