Greets, On Sun, 18 Jan 2004, Chakravarthy Cuddapah wrote: > I am new to debian. I was using RHL before. It was easy setting up > firewall there (/etc/sysconfig/iptables). Could not do the same here. Can > anyone please tell me how to do this in debian. I just want to keep open > ports 53 and 22. iptables is the same on rhl & debian. The debian part is all about: you setup the firewall, and if you have finished, you save your settings with iptables-save to /var/lib/iptables/active. After that, you clean your firewall, flush all chains, and erase all chains that aren't mandatory. (iptables -F ; iptables -X) After cleaning, you save this also as /var/lib/iptables/inactive.
The default debian installation doesn't link /etc/init.d/iptables to the runlevels, so you have to make an S99iptables symlink in rc2.d pointing to /etc/init.d/iptables and the corresponding K01iptables in rc{0,6}.d directories. My /etc/default/iptables looks like: iptables_command=iptables enable_autosave=true enable_save_counters=true If these are done, reboot the machine, and you'll see that all your rules get up after a successful boot. Best regards, -- SZALAY Attila / mrwas at cdata.hu / (20) 416 13 78 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]