iptables -A INPUT -s 127.0.0.1 -p icmp -j DROP

SS The above is the original page content for iptables, not very useful ;) btw, the above command will create a rule to DROP every ICMP packet received with source address of 127.0.0.1.

What is iptables? The firewalling framework of the Linux kernel version 2.4 and 2.6, it replaced [ipchains] present in <= 2.2 version.

The pages autoDrop and ip-drop show tcl scripts that use iptables to implement a dynamic firewall.

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