On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 02:31:21PM +0100, Sam Halliday wrote: > John Summerfield wrote: > > Sam Halliday wrote: > > >cheers... but i do not need a way to generate rules; i already know how > > >to do that. i just want to know if there is a standardised debian way of > > >loading up a firewall on startup... like a file i need to dump my > > >(customised) `iptables-save` output into. else i will just write my own > > >initscript. > > I know how to write in assembler too, but I generally don't. > > :-) yeah... but i actually have an iptables script lying around, so its just a case > of copying it to /etc/init.d and making a symlink... but i'd prefer not to do such a > homemade job of it.
Well, I use the /etc/init.d/iptables script. It is pretty good, although the author seems to be self-depreciatingly skeptical about it :-) After you have your IPTables firewall loaded you can simply do: /etc/init.d/iptables save active This will save your firewall rules. Now, you can simply do: dpkg-reconfigure iptables select "yes" to the dialog box. This will create the appropriate symlink to /etc/init.d/iptables in /etc/rcS.d/, /etc/rc0.d/ and /etc/rc6.d/ HTH, Didar -- It's later than you think. Random signature generated by Signify v1.07 http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]