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1Jul/110

APF as a firewall tool

Working in a hosting company brought some standards of use. Personally, I always have a handy premade set of "iptables" rules in one file which I copy and modify at need for my servers, like I suppose majority of system administrators do.

Although I do manage APF tool on my work, just recently I have put it in my personal use.
APF is netfilter (iptables based) firewall system designed to cover all advanced needs of your workstation for net filtering.I will just mention a few of its features that are most interesting to me and maybe will draw your attention:
- Detailed and well commented configuration file (very easy to modify and adjust to user's personal needs)