[gentoo-user] Detecting local host firewall

Is there a way to detect programmatically whether the local host has a firewall enabled?   Thank you,   Frank       -- This e-mail message (i

Re: [gentoo-user] Detecting local host firewall

Is there a way to detect programmatically whether the local host has a firewall enabled? as root: iptables -vnL as user you may look at some files. They are indicators... interpret them. I don't know how to get the rule set. $ test -d /proc/sys/net/ipv4/netfilter get info from /proc/sys/net