How To Install iptstate on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install iptstate
on CentOS 7.
What is iptstate
IP Tables State (iptstate) was originally written to implement the “state top” feature of IP Filter in IP Tables. “State top” displays the states held by your stateful firewall in a top-like manner. Since IP Tables doesn’t have a built in way to easily display this information even once, an option was added to just have it display the state table once. Features include - Top-like realtime state table information - Sorting by any field - Reversible sorting - Single display of state table - Customizable refresh rate - Display filtering - Color-coding - Open Source - much more…
We can use yum
or dnf
to install iptstate
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install iptstate.
Install iptstate on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install iptstate
using yum
by running the following command:
Install iptstate on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install iptstate
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall iptstate on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the iptstate
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install iptstate
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.