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@@ -37,7 +37,15 @@ The following information will be presented in flowtop's output: * Transport protocol state machine information .PP In order for flowtop to work, netfilter must be active and running -on your machine, thus kernel-side connection tracking is active. +on your machine, thus kernel-side connection tracking is active. If netfilter +is not running, you can activate it with iptables(8): +.in +4 +.sp +iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -m state --state ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT +.sp +iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT +.in -4 + .PP flowtop's intention is just to get a quick look over your active connections. If you want logging support, have a look at netfilter's conntrack(8) tools @@ -125,7 +133,8 @@ Borkmann <dborkma@tik.ee.ethz.ch>. .BR ifpps (8), .BR bpfc (8), .BR astraceroute (8), -.BR curvetun (8) +.BR curvetun (8), +.BR iptables (8) .PP .SH AUTHOR Manpage was written by Daniel Borkmann. |