Recommended Plugin for Monitoring iptables

Hari Sekhon hpsekhon at googlemail.com
Wed Jan 21 10:51:47 CET 2009


Marc Powell wrote:
> "The script does not (and can not) detect "stupid" rules. It's purpose  
> is to ensure that iptables and the configured rules (whatever they may  
> be) are loaded.
>
> It is useful to identify situations such as:
> - forgetting to start iptables at boot
> - stopping iptables for testing and forgetting to restart
> - etc
>
> Normal condition is where all tables have 1 or more rules.
> Critical condition is when a table (any table) has 0 rules. "
>   
I simply have my rules re-applied from known-good versions, which mostly 
negates the need for such a check.

-h

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Hari Sekhon
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