On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 09:18:48AM +0300, Angel Tsankov wrote: > > to reload it at startup (using the init.d scripts), is there any > moment (during system startup) when ip forwarding has been enabled but > the iptables configuration has not yet been loaded and traffic could > be routed to and from PC3?
Using the standard LFS and BLFS bootscripts, iptables will be started prior to the gateway's network interfaces, so nothing gets through except what iptables lets through. -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from your operating system? Hardened Linux From Scratch http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hlfs -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
