<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Tools on akash5100</title><link>https://akash5100.github.io/tags/tools/</link><description>Recent content in Tools on akash5100</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Sat, 30 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://akash5100.github.io/tags/tools/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Traffic on blocked ports</title><link>https://akash5100.github.io/posts/2023-09-30-firewall/</link><pubDate>Sat, 30 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://akash5100.github.io/posts/2023-09-30-firewall/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;While there are many blogs and tutorials available on accessing a Virtual Cloud Network in a VM instance, such as this &lt;a href="https://docs.oracle.com/en/learn/lab_virtual_network/index.html#introduction"&gt;comprehensive guide(by oracle)&lt;/a&gt;. Some of the VM instances I&amp;rsquo;m working with are not vanilla; they come with the distributor&amp;rsquo;s packet blockers and they block traffics on all the ports.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I worked around &lt;a href="https://linux.die.net/man/8/iptables"&gt;Iptables&lt;/a&gt; a default firewall for linux, I think. It is used to set up, maintain, and inspect the tables of IP packet filter rules in the Linux kernel. Several different tables may be defined. Each table contains a number of built-in chains and may also contain user-defined chains.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>