2010/2/7 Stan Hoeppner <s...@hardwarefreak.com> > Daniel Dalton put forth on 2/6/2010 11:22 PM: > > > If I'm offline then it shouldn't run. > > Why? Does it hurt anything to have the rules active when you're not > connected? > I can't see how it would. All the rules do is cause the kernel to eat up > a > small amount of additional memory. Iptables rules are kernel data > structures, > not programs. Netfilter is part of the kernel. Iptables rules merely > program > the behavior of Netfilter. > > Just run your iptables script at startup and forget about it. Or, are you > having some kind of problem that you think this up/down/up/down/up/down of > your > iptables rules will solve? >
firestarter (GUI for iptables) would not start when the main interface had been set up to go out the internet is inactive/not connected > > -- > Stan > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > > -- Regards, Umarzuki Mochlis http://debmal.my
