iptstate - Display IPtables state information in a "top"-like interface

iptstate (IP Tables State) implements the "state top" feature from IP Filter for 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 once, an option was added to iptstate to do this.

The only requirements are a curses library (usually ncurses), and libnetfilter_conntrack version 0.0.50 or later

Installation:
OpenSuSe user can install iptstate using "1-click" installer - here
Ubuntu user can install iptstate - here

After successful installation, go to terminal and type command:  iptstate to open up the application and if netfilter CONNTRACK is enabled in the kernel.

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HowTo Find out if Installed Linux is 32 bits or 64 bits

To figure out  whether we have installed Linux is of 32 bits or 64 bits, you can run the following command in a Terminal:

uname -m

The possible outcomes and their meanings are:

    * i686       : Installed 32-bit version.
    * x86_64 : Installed 64-bit version.

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