Packet Interception Application: Simple Firewall

In continuation with the previous blog, we will now have a look at a basic agent which can act as a firewall. This firewall will drop all the packets outgoing to a particular IP destination and let other packets go through.

First we ensure that the following IPTABLES rule is installed:

sudo iptables -A OUTPUT -p ip -j NFQUEUE --queue-num 0

We can validate this by listing all the iptable rules using:  

sudo iptables –list