I Finally Dropped My Custom 1996 iptables Firewall Script—And Why It Was Time
Thirty years. That is how long my home network routing infrastructure relied on a monolithic shell script I wrote back in 1996. I crafted it back in the golden era of early Linux packet filtering, packed it with raw configuration lines, and tweaked it over decades as a hobby project to survive moving from ipfwadm to ipchains, and eventually to… Continue reading I Finally Dropped My Custom 1996 iptables Firewall Script—And Why It Was Time